Judith E. Heisick

Judith E. Heisick, 87 year old resident of Upsala, MN passed away Saturday, February 13, 2016 at Riverside Assisted Living in Royalton, MN. Funeral service will be held at 11:00 A.M. on Friday, February 19, 2016 at Word of Life Church in Upsala, MN with Rev. Clayton Wilfer officiating. Burial will take place in the Upsala Memorial Park Village Cemetery in Upsala, MN. A visitation will be held from 4-8 P.M. on Thursday and from 10-11 A.M. on Friday at Word of Life Church in Upsala, MN.
Judith was born May 17, 1928, in Swanville Township to the late Albert and Florence Palm. She attended grade school in Burtrum and graduated from Swanville High School in 1946.
She received her two-year elementary teaching certificate from St. Cloud State Teachers College in 1948, later obtaining her four-year Bachelor’s degree from St Cloud State University. She was an employee of the Upsala School District for many years, with 34 of those years spent teaching first and third graders. She was united in marriage to Ervin Koehn in 1948. Ervin passed away in 1967 and she was then united in marriage to Raymond Heisick in 1971. She was a member of Mt. Olive Lutheran Church until its recent closure at which time she began worshipping regularly at Word of Life Lutheran Church. She was a long time member of the American Legion Auxiliary Post 350. She immensely enjoyed her flower and vegetable gardens, canning and freezing the fruits of her labors. She also enjoyed embroidering, sewing and doing word search puzzles.
Left to cherish her memory are her children Debbie (Brian) Baldwin of New Hope, Minnesota, Dan Koehn of Upsala, John (Ruth) Heisick of Bowlus, Tim (Arlene) Heisick of Westminster, Colorado, and Jackie (Sheldon) Sauer of Sauk Rapids; grandchildren Joe (Maureen) Heisick, Anne Heisick and fiancé Doug Elliot, Jennifer (Mike) Grieco, Melissa (Mike) Mattingly, Dan (Melanie) Heisick, Stacy (David) Kopka-Cristiani, and Kristen (Jon) Fuchs; great-grandchildren Alex, Adam, Ashley, Nick, Olivia, Emily, Mason, Luke, Katie, Elena, Luca, Gavin and Collin; brothers Glenn (Arlene) Palm and David Palm of Swanville and sister Leona (Henry) Niemeyer of Long Prairie, brother-in-laws Andrew Staricka of Swanville, Billy (Kathy) Koehn of Upsala, Carl (Noreen) Koehn of St. Cloud, and sisters-in-law Darlene Palm of Burtrum, Carolina Click of Coon Rapids, and Ruth Pacyga of Pullman, Washington; many nieces, nephews and friends.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husbands Ervin and Raymond, daughter Dana, brothers Francis, Herbert and Scotty Palm, and sister Betty Staricka.