Obit: Heck, Anita  #2 (1918 - 2010)

Contact: Audrey Roedl

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Surnames: Heck, Sonderegger, Hohl, Hoagland, Miller

----Source: The Loyal TRG  (Loyal, Clark County, Wis. 03 Nov 2010)

Heck, Anita  (28 DEC 1918-27 OCT 2010)

Anita, D. Heck, 91, Greenwood, died on Wednesday, Oct. 27, 2010, at Harmony Commons, Stevens Point, where she had resided since July 2010. Funeral services were held at 11 a/m/. on Tuesday, Nov. 2, at Immanuel United Church of Christ, rural Greenwood. Rev. Mark Schwinn officiated. Burial followed in the Greenwood City Cemetery.

Anita Dorothy Hohl was born on Dec. 28, 1918, in Greenwood, the daughter of Edwin and Katherine (nee Sonderegger) Hohl. She was raised on the family farm and received her education in the Greenwood area, graduating from Greenwood High School in1936. After high school, she moved to Milwaukee and worked as a nanny, for a short time. She married Donald L. Miller on June 28, 1941, at Immanuel United Church of Christ in Greenwood. They farmed east of Greenwood and started a restaurant/bar business northwest of Greenwood. In1946, they purchased the Christie Store & Feed Mill and moved to Christie. Her husband, Don, died on Aug. 17, 1953. She continued to operate the store until 1956 and then moved back to Greenwood. She then worked as a bookkeeper for the Greenwood Co-op and then later for Harold Horn, at the root beer stand, for many years. She remarried on July 18, 1968, to Harve Heck. She farmed with Harve until his death in September 1985. She stayed on the farm until moving back to Greenwood in 1988, where she lived until moving to Marshfield in June 2007. She was a member of the Immanuel United Church of Christ, its Ladies Guild and had served on the church Board. She was also a member of the Canasta Club, laterfaith Caregivers, a band mother, and volunteer with the blood bank. She had many interests, but especially loved spending time with her family and friends, traveling, photography, playing cards, music and dancing.

She will be dearly missed by her two children, Sandra (Frank) Hoagland, Tuscon, Ariz., and Bruce (Wendy) Miller, Stevens Point; her six grandchildren, Kip (DeDe) Hoagland, Trent Hoagland, Travis (Ruby) Hoagland, Kasey (Vanessa) Hoagland, Chad (Erin) Miller, and Heidi (Cody) Boyce; 12 great-grandchildren; a sister-in-law, Lucille Hohl,Neillsville; and nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, Don and Harve; and two brothers, Walter Hohl and Fritz Hohl.

Her family requests that memorials be directed to Immanuel United Church of Christ, Greenwood.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.cuddiefh.com.

Cuddie Funeral Home, Greenwood, assisted the family with arrangements.