Lucille Heilman

Memorial Mass for Lucille (Holzemer) Heilman, 87, of Los Angeles, CA, formerly of Amidon, ND will be 10 a. m. , Thursday, July 30, 2009 at St. Mary?s Catholic Church, New England, ND. Burial will follow at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Cemetery, Amidon, ND. LUCILLE MARIE (HOLZEMER) HEILMAN died of natural causes on October 26th 2008 at her home in Los Angeles, California at the age of 87. She was born on her parents’ farm in Amidon North Dakota on March 12, 1921. She was the daughter of John Peter Holzemer and Susan Elizabeth Ficker, a homesteading couple from Vermillion, Minnesota who settled in North Dakota in 1908. Lucille was one of two daughters and eight sons born to Mr. & Mrs. Holzemer. She received her elementary education in a one-room schoolhouse, attended high school at St. Mary’s School in New England, North Dakota and earned a teaching certificate from Dickinson State Teacher’s College in 1939, which led to her teaching for a year in a one-room school. It was while she was teaching school that she met Casper John Cap” Heilman of Dickinson North Dakota



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