The Mass of Christian Burial for Heather Denboer, age 43 of Elgin, will be held at 10:30am Tuesday, April 21, 2015 at St. John's Catholic Church in New Leipzig with Fr. Charles Zins, officiating. Following cremation, burial will be in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery in the Miner Community south of Heil, ND.

A Rosary Service will be held at 7:00pm on Monday evening April 20, 2015 at the church in New Leipzig.

Special music will be provided by JoAnn Eslinger, pianist.
Serving as casketbearers are Sheldon, Shawn, Tara, Stuart, Michael, Jessica, Garret, Ethan, and Nick Schmitz, Lindsey and Kayla Dettmann, Isabel and Isaac Alladin, Casey and Aaron Alt, Paul Eslinger and Jill King.

E HEATHER SCHMITZ was born on February 27, 1972 in Dickinson, ND to Dennis and Sandra (Alt) Schmitz. She attended Jefferson Elementary School through the sixth grade and graduated from Trinity High School in 1990. She attended Dickinson State College for a short time and then moved with her parents to Pittsburg, CA where she graduated from college with a vocational nursing degree.
Heather worked in Los Medanos Hospital in California and then in 1995 returned to North Dakota. She lived in Bismarck where she worked as a LPN for Dr. Boyko until 2001 when she met Joel. They moved to Auburn, WA where she was a full time stay at home mom to their children Joshua and Madelyn.

Heather was united in marriage to Joel Denboer on July 1, 2006 at Lake Tschida. In August of 2007, they moved to Elgin where Heather worked for an insurance agency and law office and then began working at Dakota Community Bank in New Leipzig.
On February 22, 2015, she was diagnosed with end stage liver disease. She passed from this life on Tuesday, April 14, 2015 at the Jacobson Memorial Hospital Care Center in Elgin.

Heather loved playing cards, playing trivia games and working crossword puzzles. She also loved attending the school sporting events, but most of all she loved spending time fishing, and with her family at the cabin on Lake Tschida.

Keeping her in their fondest memories are her husband, Joel, her children, Joshua, age 10 and Madelyn, age 9, all of Elgin, her mother and step-father, Sandra Schmitz and Marvin Kubousek, both of Sturgis, SD; her maternal grandmother, Elinor Alt and paternal grandmother, Patricia Schmitz, both of Elgin, ND; sister and brother-in-law, Kimberly and Dale Bren, Elgin, ND; brother, Patrick Schmitz, Bismarck, ND; 6 nephews, Thomas and Tanner Denboer, Wyatt Wilcox, Christopher and Nathan Bren, and Mason Schmitz, 2 nieces, Pamela Denboer and Willow Wilcox; and numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins.

She was preceded in death by her maternal grandfather, Arthur Alt, paternal grandfather, Raymond Schmitz, and her father, Dennis Schmitz.

Visitation will be on Monday from 1:00 to 5:00pm at the Evanson-Jensen Funeral Home in Elgin.

A memorial has been established.