Obituary from the Lewiston Morning Tribune - August 1993

LESLIE HEIMGARTNER, 83, POTLATCH RIDGE RANCHER
Leslie F. Heimgartner, a lifelong Juliaetta area farmer and rancher, died of congestive heart failure Friday at Gritman Medical Center in Moscow. It was the day before his 84th birthday.

He had farmed and ranched on Potlatch Ridge in the Juliaetta Kendrick area since 1933.

He was born August 21, 1909, on Fix Ridge, near Juliaetta, to Robert and Bessie Hoisington Heimgartner.

He attended grade school at Fix Ridge, and two years of high school at Juliaetta.

He married Elsie Zumhofe May 10, 1933, at Lewiston. She died September 15, 1966.

He married Delores Straw on June 8, 1968, at Grangeville. She survives at the family home in Juliaetta.

He was a member of Zion Lutheran Church at Juliaetta, Kendrick Grange No. 413 and the Dicks Creek Cattlemen's Association.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by two daughters, Marie Straw of Mountain Home, Idaho, and Elaine Heimgartner of Boise; two stepsons, Tim Straw of Clearwater, Idaho, and David Straw of Price, Utah; a stepdaughter, Jennie Lyons of Clearwater; Three brothers, Roy Heimgartner, Wayne Heimgartner and Lawrence Heimgartner, all of Juliaetta; three sisters, Lillie McCall and Laverne Harri, both of Clarkston, and Betty Surbaugh of Othello, WA.; five grandchildren; six great-grandchildren and seven step grandchildren.

A son, Robert, and two brothers, Everett and Elmer, died previously.

Visitation hours are from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday at Malcom's Brower-Wann Memorial Chapel in Lewiston.

Services will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Brower-Wann, with the Rev. Robert Kenyon of Zion Lutheran Church at Juliaetta officiating. Burial will follow at Lewis-Clark Memorial Gardens in Lewiston.

The family suggests memorials be given to the Juliaetta-Kendrick Ambulance Fund or Hospice of the Palouse, 8045 Washington St., Moscow, Idaho 83843