KELSO -- Funeral Mass for Mary W. "Wilma" Heisserer of Bella Vista, Ark., will be held at 11 a.m. today at St. Bernard's Catholic Church. The Rev. Joseph Enderlin will officiate, with burial in St. Vincent's Catholic Cemetery north of Rogers, Ark.
Bella Vista Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Heisserer, 74, died Saturday, May 24, 1997, at Rogers Rehabilitation and Living Center in Rogers.
She was born Jan. 26, 1923, at Knob Noster, daughter of Hollie and Laura Beard. She married Lawrence Heisserer, formerly of Kelso, April 19, 1947, in Sedalia.
The Heisserers moved to Bella Vista 22 years ago from Florissant. She was a member of St. Bernard's Church, American Legion Auxiliary and VFW Auxiliary.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Larry Heisserer of Rogers; a daughter, Audrey Hodel of Broken Arrow, Okla.; her father of Stockton; two brothers, Euell Beard of Harwood, Dallas Beard of Belton; and four grandchildren.
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