Ethel June Heinemann
Ethel “June” Heinemann passed from this life to the next on Thanksgiving Day 2015. A Memorial Service will be held on July 5, 2016 at 2:00pm in the Bonners Ferry Funeral Home with interment in the Grandview Cemetery, Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
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 & 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 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 (TX), brothers David (AZ) and Warren (WA), five children, Dan (Kingman AZ), Mona Nicholls (Kelowna BC). Ron (Berlin NH) Lorena Sayers (Naples ID) and Roger (Suisun CA), Grandchildren Dirinda Terry (Auroa CO), Kirsten Madden (Bonners Ferry), Deborah Kipf (Cheyenne WY), Jessie Wardwell (White Salmon WA.), Ray Sayers (Seattle), Justin Munkholm, (Vancouver BC), Kellie Quesada (USAF in NM), Derrick Heinemann (US Navy in FL), Malina Heinemann also of FL and Aimee Sayers of Moscow ID) . Additionally she leaves three great-granddaughters and one Great-Great granddaughter.