Heller Family Obituaries

Holyoke Enterprise, Holyoke, Colorado, June 10, 1965
 
MRS. ROY HELLER RITES SATURDAY; NATIVE OF COUNTY
 
Last rites for Mrs. Roy Heller, a lifelong resident of the Holyoke community, were held at 2:00 p.m. Saturday, June 5, at the Holyoke Baptist church.
 
Rev. Roland Reed, pastor of the church, officiated at the service. Interment was at Holyoke Memorial Park with the Lewis Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
 
Mrs. Heller, who was 72 years of age, passed away at about 7:00 a.m. Wednesday, June 2, at the East Phillips County Hospital. She had been in failing health for several months and entered the hospital on May 25.
 
A daughter of Andrew C. and Lizzie Poe Cauble, Eunice Idell Cauble was born November 18, 1892, southeast of Holyoke. Her parents were pioneer residents of that area, and her father was one of the first permanent settlers in the Amitie community and in what is now Phillips County.
 
She was united in marriage to Roy Heller, also a native of Phillips County, on May 12, 1912. To this union five children were born, one of whom survives.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Heller engaged in farming and made their home northwest of Holyoke for many years before moving to town in 1949.
 
Mrs. Heller was baptized and became a member of the Holyoke Baptist church on July 11, 1909.
 
Survivors include her husband, Roy, Holyoke; one son, Leslie L, Haxtun; one brother, Dr. Roy Cauble, Marysville, Kansas; one sister, Mrs. Roy Barnes, Pomona, California; one half-brother, James Cauble, Plainview, Minnesota; two half-sisters, Mrs. Norman Stewart, Holyoke and Mrs. Walter Huey, Sterling; four grandchildren, Shirley, Leslie, Linda and Sharon Heller; and many other relatives and friends.
 
Preceding Mrs. Heller in death were her parents; four children, Alfred E., Annabelle, Virginia Lee and Raymond L.; one brother, Otis Cauble; one sister, Effie Cauble; and one grandson, Leslie Leroy Heller.
 
 

Eunice Idell (Cauble) Heller

Holyoke Enterprise, Holyoke, CO, May 21, 1953
 
Last rites for Raymond L. Heller of Holyoke were conducted on Friday afternoon at the Lewis Funeral home and the Holyoke Lutheran church. Rev. R. Einspahr officiated. Burial was in Holyoke Memorial park.
 
Mr. Heller, who was 34 years old, died late Friday afternoon of injuries sustained when the truck he was driving went out of control on a graveled road northeast of Holyoke. Death was instantaneous.
 
Raymond Lloyd Heller, a son of Mr. And Mrs. Roy Heller of Holyoke was born in Holyoke on June 5, 1918, while his parents were living on what is known as the old W. C. Heller farm 12 miles northwest of Holyoke. He spent his boyhood and youth in that community and attended the Beachville school when he was a boy.
 
In September, 1940, he enlisted in the army and served in the Medical Corps for more than five years, receiving his discharge in Denver, 1945. While in the army he spent three years at Fitzsimons hospital in Denver and about 18 months in the Pacific theatre during World Way II. He had been a member of the local American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars posts. He was a member of the Holyoke Lutheran Church, having been confirmed on May 31, 1947. The family moved to Holyoke from the farm on May 30, 1950.
 
After leaving the service, Mr. Heller worked on the farm until accepting a position with the Phillips County highway department a little more than two years ago. He was driving a county dump truck at the time of his death.
 
Surviving Mr. Heller are his parents; one brother, Leslie Heller; his aged grandfather, A. C. Cauble, and a number of other relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by one brother and two sisters who died in infancy.
 
 
 
Raymond L. Heller

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