Individual Details

Death

Elsie M. Fischer Heiken, 80

Elsie Marie Heiken, 80. of Manchester died Saturday morning, Sept. 25, 1993 at the Good Neighbor Home following a lengthy illness.
Funeral services were held at 1:30 p.m. Monday, Sept, 27, at Our Savior Lutheran Church with the Rev. Michael Schimd officiating. Burial was made in Oakland Cemetery.
The daughter of Louis and Anna (Gienapp) Glanz, she was born July 25, 1913 on her parent's farm near Earlville. She grew up in Earlville and Dyersville areas where she attended country schools. After completing her formal education, she worked as a waitress at the Coffee Den Cafe in Manchester for a number of years.
She married Harry Fischer on March 5, 1940 at Delaware and to this union were born three children. They farmed south of Manchester all their married life together until Mr. Fischer's death on Dec 2 1970.
On Nov. 4, 1974 she married Ernest Heiken in Manchester. They made their home here until his death on June 3, 1982, she became a resident of the Good Neighbor Home, Manchester, in November 1992.
She was a longtime member of Our Savior Lutheran Church.
Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. David (Pat) Richter of Cedar Rapids; two sons, Arden Fischer of Manchester and Tom Fischer of Anderson, Ind.; seven grandchildren' one sister, Mrs. Maurice (Alvena) Wendel of Manchester; and two sisters-in-law, Mildred Fritz and Dorothy Heiserman, both of Manchester.
She was preceded in death by her parents and her two husbands.
Shelly Funeral Home of Manchester was in charge of arrangements.