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Ethel June Heinemann |
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July 10, 1935 ~ November 26, 2015 |
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December 10, 2015 |
 Ethel
“June” Heinemann passed from this life to the
next on Thanksgiving Day 2015. June and her
husband Bernie were fifty-year residents of
Porthill, where they raised six children on the
family farm.
June and her twin sister were born on 10 July
1935 in Lewiston, Idaho to Elmer and Marjorie
(McDole) Aller. From this time until 1944, the
Aller family leased farmland in southern
Washington. In 1944 they moved to Copeland,
Idaho, whereon June’s dad and grandfather
purchased a farm nestled up against Hall
Mountain. Here they lived while June attended
the two room elementary school in Porthill, and
then onto graduate with the class of 1953 from
Bonners Ferry High School.
Shortly after graduation, June married an old
family friend, Fred Eskew, and moved to Nevada,
then to Washington, and ultimately northern
California. During this time she had her first
two children. In 1963, her Fred became
terminally ill and she moved with her children
back to her childhood home in Copeland.
After the death of her first husband in 1963,
she met and fell in love with Bernie Heinemann
who was operating a farm in Porthill and working
for the KV ranch with his brother Aldoph. Bernie
and June subsequently married, and within a year
had purchased their farm and along with four
additional children, made their living.
After the youngest of the children had left home
for the Navy, June began working at the Extended
Care Facility at Boundary County Hospital as a
Certified Nursing Assistant. In this capacity
she served her community for the next 20 plus
years, making the 50-mile round trip from
Porthill to the hospital four and five times per
week regardless of the weather.
After her retirement in 2006, June enjoyed
traveling to see family and just relaxing with
her husband on the family farm. The highlights
of June’s retirement days were when family and
friends would come by for a visit. Her
hospitality and cooking prowess were well known
to friends and family alike. Her wisdom, quick
wit, and love she showered on her family will be
sorely missed.
She was preceded in death by her eldest daughter
Marjorie, and her husband Bernie. She is
survived by her sister Jane Irons (Texas),
brothers David (Arizona) and Warren
(Washington), five children, Dan (Kingman,
Arizona), Mona Nicholls (Kelowna, British
Columbia). Ron (Berlin, New Hampshire) Lorena
Sayers (Naples, Idaho) and Roger (Suisun,
California), Grandchildren Dirinda Terry
(Aurora, Colorado), Kirsten Madden (Bonners
Ferry), Deborah Kipf (Cheyenne, Wyoming), Jessie
Wardwell (White Salmon, Washington), Ray Sayers
(Seattle), Justin Munkholm, (Vancouver, British
Columbia), Kellie Quesada (USAF in New Mexico),
Derrick Heinemann (U.S. Navy in Florida), Malina
Heinemann also of Florida, and Aimee Sayers of
Moscow, Idaho) . Additionally she leaves three
great-granddaughters and one great-great
granddaughter.
Interment and services will be in Grandview
Cemetery this summer; specifics will be
announced at a later date. |
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