Loarine Heckenlaible

Loarine Heckenlaible, age 92 of Menno, SD passed away Saturday, June 13, 2015 at Oakview Terrace Nursing Home, Freeman, SD. Funeral services will be 10:30 AM, Thursday, June 18, 2015 at Grace Lutheran Church, Menno, with Rev. Theresa Jacobson officiating. Burial will be in the Menno Cemetery. Visitations will be 5 to 8 PM, Wednesday, June 17, 2015 at the Aisenbrey-Opsahl-Kostel Memorial Chapel, Menno, and then one hour prior to the service at the church.

Loarine Ida (Davis) Heckenlaible was born March 25, 1923 on a farm near Scotland, SD to Wilbur and Cathryn (Baker) Davis. She attended country school near Scotland and graduated from Scotland High School in 1940.

She married Alvin E. Heckenlaible on April 29, 1941 at Bloomfield, NE. Her husband taught at a rural school near Menno at the time of their marriage but then was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1942. Loarine then went to live with her parents on a farm near Scotland along with their two children, Daryl and Carol. Alvin returned home from the Army in the fall of 1945. They then moved to a farm southeast of Menno and another son, Galen was born.

Loarine was baptized and confirmed on February 13, 1947 by Reverand E. A. Bischoff at Grace Lutheran Church, Menno, SD. She remained a member of that church her entire life.

In 1951 they moved to a farm six miles east of Menno. They farmed there all their life and retired in Menno, SD. Loarine helped with farm chores and enjoyed quilting, gardening and flowers. In later years, she was very active with the Ladies Aid.

Her husband passed away in 2002 and in February of 2010, she became a resident of Oakview Terrace, Freeman, SD.

Loarine is survived by her sons, Daryl (Janet) Heckenlaible of Mitchell, SD and Galen Heckenlaible of Menno; 4 grandchildren: Lorie (Kent) Lehr, Todd (Lori) Heckenlaible, Amy (Scott) Nusz and Greg (Jenifer) Wollman; 11 great-grandchildren: Dylan, Dustin, Derrick and Dominick Lehr, Cole, Levi and Josh Heckenlaible, Adrian, Grace, Michael and Andrew Nusz; 1 step great-grandchild, Milaana Abrahamson and a host of friends and relatives.

Loarine was also preceded in death by her husband, her parents, Wilbur and Cathryn Davis; her in-laws, Edward and Emma Heckenlaible; her sister and husband, Muriel and Victor Jonas; her daughter, Carol and husband, Delmore Wollman; in-laws, Edward and Martha Hoerth, Eugene and Frieda Heckenlaible, Edmund and Lydia Heckenlaible, Rudolph and Hildegard Bezug and Matha and Leonard Goehring.