William Arthur HEINEKEN

Birth:
30 May 1889
Effingham, Atchison, Kansas
Death:
4 Mar 1957
Atchison, Atchison, Kansas
Burial:
Overland Park, Johnson, Kansas
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23 Dec 1914
Atchison, Atchison, Kansas
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Gertrude Knight Heineken, Letters 1960-1976
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                       Arthur went to rural school, then farmed with his father and brothers in Atchison and Jefferson, Kansas. In April 1913, Arthur was in Plaza, North Dakota with his brother Theodore, farming. Later he farmed near Nortonville, Farmington, Larkin and Valley Falls.  He was a very nice looking, medium sized man, with dark hair. The family moved to Atchison in the 1930's and he worked for the Power & Light Company as gas foreman. In 1930 they had the largest twins on record at that time. They each weighed nine and one-half pounds. The family lived at 412 Woodlawn, 1508 Kansas Ave, and 714 Atchison Street, Atchison, Kansas. Arthur died after an extended illness due to asthma and heart trouble. He and his wife are both buried at Johnson County Memorial Gardens, Overland Park,
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Gertrude Lee KNIGHT
Birth:
9 Dec 1896
Nortonville, Jefferson, Kansas
Death:
25 Mar 1977
Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas
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                       Gertie and her family were from Nortonville, Kansas. She was a member of the Nortonville Christian Church. She was quite a large woman. She moved from Atchison to Kansas City, Kansas in 1959. She was always good to write letters and keep in touch with the family. Later in life, she had painful arthritis, but continued to help her daughters with their children. She lived in a seniors high rise and enjoyed the prayer meetings they had there. She quite often went with her children to visit other family members. After an operation, they found three tumors in her bowels. She died at the Bethany Medical Center of Cancer.
                  
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                       She was called Marie. She may have had a first marriage to Ted Forrest Holmes. She lived in Armourdale and in Kansas City, Kansas. She moved with Arnelle in 1974. She was a nurse at Bethany Hospital. She had an operation 12 Feb 1975 for a tumor. She died of cancer.
                  
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                       He was called Clyde in his younger years. He is a large man. He was a Private and stationed at Hot Springs in the medical department of the Army and Navy hospital. He was divorced from his first wife in Oklahoma, in 1942 and she married Roy Albert Berry. His daughter went by Barbara Ann Berry, and lived near Sacramento, California. She married and had a daughter named Teresa Ann Starlet born about Oct 1964.

    Clyde worked for Santa Fe Railroad. His wife, Florence, is the daughter of Jesse Franklin Herde and Billie Irene Richardson. Later Florence suffered a nervous breakdown. There was a divorce in 1974. The family was split up and four of the girls were in Denver with friends. Three boys lived at Turner with friends. One boy was in the service and one married. The youngest daughter, Sherrie Denise, was adopted to another family in 1976. Florence was then married to Jerry Lee Moore. In later life, Clyde suffered a stroke and lived at the lake in Missouri with, his brother Fred. After Fred remarried, he spent time with his sister, Marie and her daughter, Arnelle. Later he lived in an apartment and then with his daughter, Mary Jo Gibson.
                  
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                       Betty's daughter, Jackie, and family lived in New Jersey and then Indiana. Marie's daughter, Arnelle, lived with her part of the time. Her husband, Ted, worked for General Motors. She had two strokes and two heart attacks before she died.
                  
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William Arthur Heineken - Gertrude Lee Knight

William Arthur Heineken was born at Effingham, Atchison, Kansas 30 May 1889. His parents were William Augustus Langeheineken and Mary Ann Helme.

He married Gertrude Lee Knight 23 Dec 1914 at Atchison, Atchison, Kansas . Gertrude Lee Knight was born at Nortonville, Jefferson, Kansas 9 Dec 1896 .

They were the parents of 9 children:
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William Arthur Heineken died 4 Mar 1957 at Atchison, Atchison, Kansas .

Gertrude Lee Knight died 25 Mar 1977 at Kansas City, Wyandotte, Kansas .