ROCKWOOD - Harry Leo Heins, 74, died at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, 2000, in St Joseph Memorial Hospital in Murphysboro.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob, with the Revs. Gregory J. Schultz and Rick Twenhafel officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be after 4:30 p.m. today and from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Wilson's Funeral Home in Ava, and from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the church.
Memorials may be made to the church's general or renovation funds.
Mr. Heins was a farmer and president of Heins Farms Inc.
He had served on the Farm Credit Board for 18 years, where he had been chairman. He was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob and various church boards and committees, the Jackson Country Farm Bureau, a charter member of the Mississippi Valley Gun Club and a life member of BBK American Legion Post 480 in Steeleville and Kaskaskia Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3553 in Chester. He was on the Gorham school board for 18 years. He was an Army veteran Tech 4, of World War II.
He was born Sept. 13, 1926, in Gorham to Arthur and Mary (Schaumber) Heins.
He married Leona J. Twenhafel on July 24, 1948, in Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob. She survives.
Other survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Carl and Ruby Heins and David and Mindy Heins, all of Rockwood; one daughter and son-in-law, Nancy and Peter Nettling of Ballwin, Mo.; eight grandchildren, Karla, Brad, Scott, Neil, Chase and Hayleigh Heins, and Pierce and Meredith Nettling; one brother, Robert Heins of Murphysboro; and three sisters, Dorothy Rohlfing of Gorham, Alica Ahner of Huntsville, Ala., and Margaret Heins of St. Louis.
His parents, one brother, Wilburn, one sister Betty Suchman, and two brothers-in-law, Alvin Rohlfing and Wayne Suchman, preceded him in death.
[Source: Jackson County Historical Society obituary files, probably Southern Illinoisan newspaper]
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob, with the Revs. Gregory J. Schultz and Rick Twenhafel officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be after 4:30 p.m. today and from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Wilson's Funeral Home in Ava, and from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the church.
Memorials may be made to the church's general or renovation funds.
Mr. Heins was a farmer and president of Heins Farms Inc.
He had served on the Farm Credit Board for 18 years, where he had been chairman. He was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob and various church boards and committees, the Jackson Country Farm Bureau, a charter member of the Mississippi Valley Gun Club and a life member of BBK American Legion Post 480 in Steeleville and Kaskaskia Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3553 in Chester. He was on the Gorham school board for 18 years. He was an Army veteran Tech 4, of World War II.
He was born Sept. 13, 1926, in Gorham to Arthur and Mary (Schaumber) Heins.
He married Leona J. Twenhafel on July 24, 1948, in Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob. She survives.
Other survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Carl and Ruby Heins and David and Mindy Heins, all of Rockwood; one daughter and son-in-law, Nancy and Peter Nettling of Ballwin, Mo.; eight grandchildren, Karla, Brad, Scott, Neil, Chase and Hayleigh Heins, and Pierce and Meredith Nettling; one brother, Robert Heins of Murphysboro; and three sisters, Dorothy Rohlfing of Gorham, Alica Ahner of Huntsville, Ala., and Margaret Heins of St. Louis.
His parents, one brother, Wilburn, one sister Betty Suchman, and two brothers-in-law, Alvin Rohlfing and Wayne Suchman, preceded him in death.
[Source: Jackson County Historical Society obituary files, probably Southern Illinoisan newspaper]
ROCKWOOD - Harry Leo Heins, 74, died at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, 2000, in St Joseph Memorial Hospital in Murphysboro.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob, with the Revs. Gregory J. Schultz and Rick Twenhafel officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be after 4:30 p.m. today and from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Wilson's Funeral Home in Ava, and from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the church.
Memorials may be made to the church's general or renovation funds.
Mr. Heins was a farmer and president of Heins Farms Inc.
He had served on the Farm Credit Board for 18 years, where he had been chairman. He was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob and various church boards and committees, the Jackson Country Farm Bureau, a charter member of the Mississippi Valley Gun Club and a life member of BBK American Legion Post 480 in Steeleville and Kaskaskia Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3553 in Chester. He was on the Gorham school board for 18 years. He was an Army veteran Tech 4, of World War II.
He was born Sept. 13, 1926, in Gorham to Arthur and Mary (Schaumber) Heins.
He married Leona J. Twenhafel on July 24, 1948, in Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob. She survives.
Other survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Carl and Ruby Heins and David and Mindy Heins, all of Rockwood; one daughter and son-in-law, Nancy and Peter Nettling of Ballwin, Mo.; eight grandchildren, Karla, Brad, Scott, Neil, Chase and Hayleigh Heins, and Pierce and Meredith Nettling; one brother, Robert Heins of Murphysboro; and three sisters, Dorothy Rohlfing of Gorham, Alica Ahner of Huntsville, Ala., and Margaret Heins of St. Louis.
His parents, one brother, Wilburn, one sister Betty Suchman, and two brothers-in-law, Alvin Rohlfing and Wayne Suchman, preceded him in death.
[Source: Jackson County Historical Society obituary files, probably Southern Illinoisan newspaper]
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob, with the Revs. Gregory J. Schultz and Rick Twenhafel officiating. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be after 4:30 p.m. today and from 7:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Wilson's Funeral Home in Ava, and from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the church.
Memorials may be made to the church's general or renovation funds.
Mr. Heins was a farmer and president of Heins Farms Inc.
He had served on the Farm Credit Board for 18 years, where he had been chairman. He was a member of Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob and various church boards and committees, the Jackson Country Farm Bureau, a charter member of the Mississippi Valley Gun Club and a life member of BBK American Legion Post 480 in Steeleville and Kaskaskia Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3553 in Chester. He was on the Gorham school board for 18 years. He was an Army veteran Tech 4, of World War II.
He was born Sept. 13, 1926, in Gorham to Arthur and Mary (Schaumber) Heins.
He married Leona J. Twenhafel on July 24, 1948, in Christ Lutheran Church in Jacob. She survives.
Other survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law, Carl and Ruby Heins and David and Mindy Heins, all of Rockwood; one daughter and son-in-law, Nancy and Peter Nettling of Ballwin, Mo.; eight grandchildren, Karla, Brad, Scott, Neil, Chase and Hayleigh Heins, and Pierce and Meredith Nettling; one brother, Robert Heins of Murphysboro; and three sisters, Dorothy Rohlfing of Gorham, Alica Ahner of Huntsville, Ala., and Margaret Heins of St. Louis.
His parents, one brother, Wilburn, one sister Betty Suchman, and two brothers-in-law, Alvin Rohlfing and Wayne Suchman, preceded him in death.
[Source: Jackson County Historical Society obituary files, probably Southern Illinoisan newspaper]
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