Walter and Blanche Heimer Obituaries

Holyoke Enterprise, Holyoke, Colorado, January 1, 1959
 
W.F. HEIMER SERVICE HELD SATURDAY
 
Walter F. Heimer, well known farmer and 40-year resident of this community, passed away Tuesday night of last week, December 23, 1958, at his home a few miles southwest of Holyoke.
 
Mr. Heimer had been in poor health for some time and was a patient at the Phillips County hospital for several weeks. He was taken home Tuesday and a family dinner was served there that day. Mr. Heimer passed away in his sleep Tuesday night. He was 75 years of age.
 
Services were conducted at 2:00 o'clock Saturday afternoon at the Holyoke Church of Christ (Christian), with Rev. Stanley Bouchard in charge. Interment was in Holyoke Memorial Park. Arrangements were in charge of the Lewis Funeral Home.
 
Walter Frank Heimer, a son of John and Margaret Heimer, was born December 26, 1882, on a farm southeast of Hebron, Nebraska. He grew to manhood there and was united in marriage to Blanche E. Roos on February 21, 1906.
 
To this union three children were born, Glenn A., Bernice (Mrs. Robert Ferguson), and Harold, all of Holyoke. The family moved to what is now the Jack Stahl farm south of Holyoke in 1919. Two years later they moved to the farm southwest of town which has been the W.F. Heimer home since that time.
 
As a young man Mr. Heimer was baptized and united with the Liberty Ridge Christian church near Hebron, Nebraska. He was a faithful member of the church and served as an elder in the Holyoke Christian church for many years.
 
Surviving are his wife, Blanche; the three children already mentions; three brothers, Ora, Rudolph and John Heimer, all of Hebron; 10 grandchildren, and many other relatives and friends.
 
 
 
Walter F. Heimer

Holyoke Enterprise, Holyoke, Colorado, January 22, 1976
 
BLANCHE HEIMER RITES JANUARY 16
 
Funeral services were held Friday, January 16, 1976, from the First Christian church in Holyoke for Blanche E. Heimer, 90, who passed away January 13, at Melissa Memorial Hospital.
 
Blanche Ethel Roos Heimer was born October 30, 1885, the daughter of William and Sarah Roos, at Amherst, Buffalo County, Nebraska.
 
Blanche attended school in Buffalo County, and then moved with the family to Hebron, Nebraska, as a young woman. It was here that she met Walter F. Heimer and they were married February 21, 1906.
 
They lived in Hebron, until March 1919 when the family which now had grown to include two sons, and one daughter moved to Holyoke. The family home was southwest of town where Walter was engaged in farming. They lived on the farm until Walter's death in 1958 at which time Blanche moved into town. The last seven years of her life were spent in Sheridan Manor Nursing Home.
 
Blanche became a Christian at an early age, and was a faithful member of the Holyoke Christian church. She loved music and served the Liberty Ridge church near Hebron as organist. She was a former member of the Pleasant Prairie and Jolly Dozen clubs.
 
Mrs. Heimer was preceded in death by her husband, Walter F., her parents, two brothers, and one sister.
 
She is survived by her children, Glenn A. Mrs. Bernice Ferguson, and Harold B., all of Holyoke, ten grandchildren; 22 great grandchildren; one niece, Letha Missling of Windom, Minnesota, and a host of friends.
 
 
 
Holyoke Enterprise, Holyoke, Colorado, June 26, 2003
 
 
Blanche Ethel (Roos) Heimer
 

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