Anna Heckathorn

Anna Y. Heckathorn, 94, passed away Friday, July 18, 2003, at Chateau Girardeau in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Nov. 22, 1908, in Wapwallopen, Pa., daughter of Michael and Katerina Pavlovic Young. She and the Rev. Fred A. Heckathorn were married Nov. 18, 1942. He passed away Jan. 15, 1991.

Anna attended high school in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., and received a high school diploma from the Dodd-Harris School in Chicago. She completed a parish worker's course at the Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse and Training School in Baltimore, Md. She graduated with a registered nursing degree from Lutheran Deaconess Hospital in Chicago in 1941.

Prior to her marriage she worked as a night supervisor at Lutheran Deaconess Hospital. She also was employed in the pediatrics unit at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau, retiring in 1973. She then served as a school nurse at Meadow Heights School District in Patton, Mo., and worked at the former Ann Patterson Nursing Home in Perryville, Mo.

She was a member of St. Mark Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau.

Loving survivors include three daughters, Mary Savoy and husband George of Cape Girardeau, Ruth Heckathorn of Springfield, Ill., Esther Bohnert and husband Myron of Jackson; a grandson, Aaron Bohnert of Jackson; and a granddaughter, Marjorie Savoy of Cape Girardeau.

In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by a son, Fred Heckathorn Jr.; a sister, Amelia; and two brothers, George and John.

Friends may call at McCombs Funeral Home in Jackson from 4 to 8 p.m. today, and after 1 p.m. Sunday at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Cape Girardeau.

The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at the church, with the Rev. Robert F. Klein officiating. Burial will be in Lixville Cemetery near Sedgewickville, Mo.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to St. Mark Lutheran Church.