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Robert Walter Heimgartner of Yakima, Wash., a native of the Stonypoint area and a former Genesee school teacher, died of a heart attack at 12:15 a.m. Sunday, June 5 at a Yakima hospital. He was 42.
Bob and his family had moved to Yakima 11 years ago and he was a vocational agriculture instructor and advisor of the Future Farmers of America at Eisenhower High School in that city. Prior to that he had taught school at Genesee for a number of years and was a well-known and respected member of Genesee community.
Heimgartner was born June 26, 1934, at Lewiston, the son of Leslie F. and Elsie M. Heimgartner. His mother preceded him in death. He attended grade school at Stonypoint and high school at Lapwai. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees of science at the University of Idaho.
He was a member of the National Education Assn., the American Vocational Assn., the Washington State Assn., of Agriculture Teachers and a 29-year member of the International Order of Oddfellows at Yakima and Englewood Christian Church.
He married Beverly Greer on June 28, 1953, at Lewiston. She survives at the family home at Yakima. Beverly is also a teacher in the Yakima school system.
Other survivors include a son, Leslie P. Heimgartner of Pullman, Wa.; two daughters, Jerrice L. and Janece L. Heimgartner of Yakima; his father and step-mother, Leslie F. and Delores Heimgartner of Juliaetta; 2 sisters, Marie Straw of Mountain Home and Elaine Heimgartner of Nampa; and his maternal grandmother Lena Zumhofe of Mountain Home.
Funeral services were held at 4 p.m. Tuesday at the Englewood Christian Church, Yakima. Graveside services will be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens. The body may be viewed from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday and from 9 to 2 p.m. Thursday at Malcom's Brower-Wann Memorial Chapel.
The family suggests any memorial contributions be made to the Robert W. Heimgartner Memorial Fund in care of the Keith & Keith Funeral Home, P.O. Box 2824, Yakima, Wa 98902.
Unknown newspaper, (handwritten date 1977)
The communities of Juliaetta and Genesee were stunned to hear of the passing of Bob Heimgartner and our sympathy and grief for Leslie and Delores and Beverly and the children is deep and sincere. Why a fine young man like Bob should be taken when he had so much to give the world is a question we can never hope to answer or understand.
Friends, parents, and former students will remember Bob as a big, friendly bear of a man with sunny disposition, ready smile and booming laugh that could be heard a mile away. He was highly respected by fellow educators, parents and students alike and he was gifted with a natural love for people which made him an outstanding teacher, able to communicate and pass on his knowledge with a minmum of discipline.
The shock and sorrow that is Leslie's, Beverly's and the children's is deep and heavy and is also felt by all
who knew their son, husband and father, but Bob Heimgartner leaves us all a legacy of love, respect, and
achievement and the memory of having known a truly good man.
--Bill
Unknown newspaper, (undated)
Transcribed by Jill Leonard Nock
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