North Dakota, USA, and Brandon, Manitoba, Canada, Knights of Columbus councils. Proud accomplishment for John was being the first president of the International Peace Garden Field Mass Association, established by the Rugby, Harvey, and Dunseith, Kennedy #0786 Assembly of the 4th Degree Knights of Columbus. He was also a member of the 3rd and 4th Degree Knights of Columbus Council #4136 and an Honor Guard for the John F. John was a devout member of Little Flower Catholic Church in Rugby where he served as a Lector and Eucharistic Lay Minister for many years. Years in Bismarck, John spent time at his watch bench taking joy in making pearl and jewel-beaded necklaces for family, friends and people he would meet in the community.
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Throughout his years in business and into 2012, the Heilman’s Jewelry booth at the annual Rugby Armory Spring Expo was a popular and much appreciated attraction, where John provided free ring inspection/cleaning and replacement of watch batteries. After his retirement in 1986, John carried on repairing watches, clocks and jewelry out of his home, with a seemingly endless stream of customers whom he enjoyed visiting with as he worked at his watch bench in his basement. John and Harriet were blessed with eight children, seven daughters and one son, with all of their daughters working at the jewelry store growing up and their son selling aquarium fish in a back section of the store during high school. A final move took them to Rugby in 1960 where together they continued to own and operate Heilman’s Jewelry for 26 years, which included a Hallmark card and gift shop. Their own watchmaking/repair, engraving, jewelry and gift business named Heilman’s Jewelry. In September 1951, John and Harriet moved back to New Rockford and started Moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota, where John was a watchmaker at a jewelry store. in December 1950, and at that time, the family John re-Ĭeived his Certificate of Proficiency as a certified watchmaker from the United Horological Association of America, Inc. In November 1949, John passed the National Horology Examination, and in July 1950, he was awarded with his certification for Jewelry and Stone-Setting. For their honeymoon, John and Harriet traveled to the Black Hills in South Dakota and then on to their first home in Sunflower, Kansas, where John attended the Kansas City School of Watchmaking in Kansas City, Missouri, under the GI-Bill. Mary’s Cathedral in Fargo on September 1, 1948. With her plans to move back to Fargo at the end of the 1948 school year, Harriet, on the spur of the moment, phoned and asked John out on their first date as her escort to the high school prom, she being one of the teachers chaperoning the event.
The two would see each other in church, while Harriet shopped at the grocery store where John worked, or at local events as when Harriet saw John perform as a comedic actor in a New Rockford community play, but they rarely talked to each other. Here, he met his future wife Harriet Isabel Quick of Fargo, North Dakota, who was a teacher at the junior high and high school in New Rockford. School of Beef Cutting in Toledo, Ohio, and from 1946-1948 worked as a meat-cutter in the Red Owl grocery store in New Rockford.
Trumpeter in the 91st Infantry Division Band and was the bugler who played “Taps” at night to signal the end of the official day. During WWII, John served in the 91st Infantry Division in Africa, Sicily and Italy from 1943-1945. John briefly attended Minot State College and worked as a machinist in the shipyards of Portland, Oregon, before joining the US Army in 1942. He was raised in New Rockford and gra-ĭuated from New Rockford High School in 1940. John was born on in New Rockford, North Dakota, the son of Karl (aka Charles) and Clara (Freeson) Heilman. Visitation was on Thursday, June 21, from 5-7 with a Rosary/vigil at 7:00 at Bismarck Funeral Home. A graveside burial immediately followed at the North Dakota Veterans Cemetery, Mandan, North Dakota. on Friday, June 22, at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Bismarck. Mass of Christian burial was held at 10:00 a.m.
John Jacob Heilman, age 97, formerly of Rugby, North Dakota, died peacefully at home on Saturday, Jin Bismarck, North Dakota, in the loving care of his
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