Service of Remembrance for Leona M. Hehn, 76, of Elgin will be Monday, March 7, 2005 at 10:30 a.m. at the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church in Elgin. Rev. Jerry Lee will officiate and burial will follow at the Zion Lutheran Cemetery in Elgin,


Serving as casketbearers are Jeff and Steve Ketterling, Jeff Streigel, and Danny Hauge. All of Leona's family and friends are considered honorary bearers.


LEONA MARIA KETTERLING was born on April 1, 1928 in rural Grant County, ND, near Leith, to Andrew and Katrina (Meidinger) Ketterling. She attended Cowan Grade School and attended Leith High School. Leona attained her teachers certificate from Dickinson State College, after which she taught at several rural schools in the area.


Leona was united in marriage to R. Alvin Hehn on July 1, 1951 in Elgin. They lived on a farm and raised their four children, Naomi, Debra, Beverly and Russell. They enjoyed their life on the farm and later retired and moved to a house in Elgin. Leona's husband passed from this life in 2000 and she later moved to Carson. In 2004, Leona entered the Missouri Slope Lutheran Care Center in Bismarck. She passed from this life at the St. Alexius Medical Center in Bismarck on March 3, 2005.

She is survived by her children, Naomi and husband Howard Halverson, of Bowie, MD; Debra Hehn and husband Dave Nixon, of Whitecourt, Alberta, Canada; Beverly Schlenker, of Bismarck, ND and Russell and wife Deb Hehn, of Elgin, ND; brothers, Hugo Ketterling, of Lead, SD and LeRoy and wife Luella Ketterling, of Billings, MT; sisters, Hilda Hauge and Mildred Streigel, both of Carson, ND and Lillian and husband Lawrence Neher, of Powell, WY and four grandchildren, Michael (19) Logan (14), Molly (12), and Annie (9) Hehn.

Preceding Leona in death were her parents, Andrew and Katie Ketterling, her husband, R. Alvin Hehn, brother, Kenneth Ketterling and son-in-law, Eddie Schlenker.


A Memorial will be established by the family.