✝︎ Beloved Maternal Grandfather ✝︎

♥༺✿═In Loving Memory═✿༻♥

Blessings of Love and Eternal Peace

ʚ❤ɞ Angel Baby Boy Heck ʚ❤ɞ

♥ Sweet Grandma ♥ Grandpa Frank ♥ My Dad ♥ My Furbaby Willie

(John was not given a middle name and adopted my mother when she was age one)

Note:

Correct Birth December, 27 1892

Incorrect Birth Year 1889 Engraved On The Marker

I remember, when the marker was unveiled the day of the funeral and grandma said, oh no not again! Meaning, her second husband's marker was incorrectly engraved.

♥ Wedding anniversary December 24, 1929 ♥

John Haak and Katherine Heck were married in Seattle, King Co, Washington.

I will always remember him working on their rental cottages. He had work to do outside in the garden and chopping wood. Always wearing overalls with Prince Albert in a can. His fingertips were yellow from rolling his own. Oh he was not happy when the doctor told him to stop rolling em. Grandma kept an eye out. In their late years, they bought matching leather chairs with a new TV. Grandma had the volume control.

He immigrated from Holland to Ellis Island. The following information has not been verified. He arrived in 1912 at the age of 20, stating he was to live in Auburn, Washington. He adopted my mother when she was age one. (My mother found out when she was age 12. She needed glasses and proof of her parents were required. My mother told me that day was all about getting to get glasses to her. When they told her the truth, she said, "hmm". He had always been her dad and, "what is the big deal"? My mom says, "hmm" to sooo many things).

The photo that was posted by a contributor of my grandpa John ... shocked my mom. My mom had never seen that photo ever before of him in her life, as we do not have a copy of that photo. We do not know where it came from. His hair was red and turned pure white in his early years. His hair stayed as thick as it is in that photo until his last days. That photo pretty much says it all with that smile. He rarely ever ever spoke a word. Except, mom said her and her sister were jumping up and down on their beds upstairs because their mom (my grandma) just gave birth to their baby brother in the room below and the door opened to their stairway and the girls got told to "Be Quiet". Grandpa was serious.

He was the youngest of about 11 siblings. When his mother passed away, one of his older siblings, a sister named Wilhamena helped care for the younger siblings. He liked to refer to her as "Meen". He immigrated through Ellis Island. Several years after his arrival to America, he went back to Holland for a short visit then returned to his farm in Auburn, Washington. Eventually his sister Wilhamena came to America and lived in California. She had a daughter name Mary. Mary came to visit him in 1936. John and his brother Lane (sp?) had a dairy farm in Auburn, Washington. They put out an ad needing a housekeeper. Katherine Keimig Heck (my maternal grandmother) was widowed November 1928, with a baby born posthumously. She answered the ad and was hired to be their housekeeper. He married Katherine December 24, 1929 in Seattle, King Co, Washington. John with much love, adopted Katherine's baby girl when she was age one, to be his own daughter forever. From this loving union they brought into this world a boy and a girl. For most of their lives together they resided in Enumclaw, Washington. He was too old for WW II but, worked as a carpenter in the Tacoma shipyards. After WW II he worked in Enumclaw at the White River Lumber Company in the mill's planning department. Weyerhauser eventually bought the mill and he retired from there in about 1957.

He is Loved and Missed.

Bio in process about their home ...

Held in our hearts ♥

Lovingly,

Your Granddaughter,

PureGrace©2014

A heartfelt thank you to my dear friend Deb for sponsoring my grandpa's memorial.

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