CEDAR COUNTY, NEBRASKA - OBITUARY OF SISTER DION HEINE O.S.F. ==================================================================== NEGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. This file was contributed for use in the NEGenWeb Archives by Carol Tramp Permission granted by: Rob Dump, Editor, Cedar County News ====================================================================== THE CEDAR COUNTY NEWS - Wednesday, April 19, 2000 ROCKFORD, Ill. -- Sister Dion Heine O.S.F., 83, died March 30, 2000, in Provena Cor Mariae Center, Rockford, Ill. Funeral Mass was April 1 in Provena Cor Mariae Center Chapel, Rockford, Ill. Burial was in Calvary Cemetery, Rockford, Ill. Pallbearers were Donald Albers, Buddy Heine, Gary Heine, Larry Heine, Allen Heine and Vincent Affatati. Sister Dion was born Dec. 1, 1916, to Frank and Frances (Lammers) Heine in St. Helena. She was one of eight children. In 1935, she was received into the order of the School Sisters of St. Francis. She taught elementary grades at St. Mary School in Saukville, Wis., from 1936-1940; Holy Cross School in Stockton from 1940-1966, and Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Sublette from 1966-1967. She then helped staff a new residential school for severely developmentally disabled children at the former St. Francis Hospital in Freeport. Sister Dion resigned as principal there in July 1987, but continued on in volunteer service to many at the school until the spring of 1996. She had been a resident of Cor Mariae Center since October 1996. Survivors include a brother, Emery, St. Helena; many nieces and nephews and the School Sisters of St. Francis. She was preceded in death by three breother, Gerhard Heine, Leonard Heine and Alphonse Heine; and three sisters, Frieda Wieseler, Agnes Koch and her twin sister Josephine Albers.