CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF Sr.  Elaine Heimes
				aka  Rita E. Heimes

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Sr.  Elaine Heimes

YANKTON, S.D. - Sister Elaine Heimes, 77, Yankton, S.D., died Aug. 13, 
1999, in the Sacred Heart Monastery infirmary.

Funeral Mass was Monday In the Bishop Marty Chapel, Yankton.

Burial was in the monastery cemetery.

Rita Elizabeth Heimes was born Nov. 21, 1921, to Anon and Frances 
(Hochstein) Heimes on the family farm near Wynot. After completing 
elementary education, she assisted with work on the farm until she 
entered Sacred Heart Monastery in September 1944.  She made her first 
profession as Sister Elaine June 24, 1946, and celebrated her golden 
jubilee in 1996.

Her entire ministry has been in food service.  After four years as food 
service director for Mount Marty College and a year in the Bishop's 
house in Sioux Falls, she began a 45 year career as cafeteria supervisor 
at Avera Sacred Heart Hospital, Yankton.  Her certification as food 
service supervisor resulted from correspondence courses in food service 
supervision, sponsored by the American and South Dakota Dietetic 
Associations and summer institutes sponsored by the Catholic Health 
Association of Fontbonne College, St. Louis, Mo.

She enjoyed traveling, especially a trip to Rome, Italy, and Germany in 
1975.

She had been an infirmary resident since 1996.         

She is survived by her Benedictine community; two sisters, Ursula Kathol, 
Hartington; and Sister Frances Ursula, Maple Mt., Ky; two brothers, 
Ignatius, Hartington; and Hubert, Coleridge; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, three sisters and six brothers.

 

Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1999-CEDAR COUNTY NEWS