Charlotte Heimann

Charlotte, retired textile worker died July 25 at Jordan Hospital in Plymouth after a lengthy illness. A memorial service will be held at the High St. United Methodist Church in Duxbury on Saturday, August 25 at 3pm. Rev. Barbara Cann will be presiding. Mrs. Heimann was born Sept. 23, 1924 in Elbing, West Prussia, Germany. She was in Berlin, Germany when the city was bombed during WWII. She eventually fled to West Germany in 1948 and immigrated to the United States in 1957 with her daughter Gudrun. She lived for a short time in Avon and Dunstable, MA before moving to Brockton in 1959. She worked all of her life at various jobs in spite of developing chronic fatigue syndrome in midlife. For many years, she was employed at Draper Brothers Co. in Canton, MA from which she retired in 1990. She had a love of working with machinery & enjoyed her work in the textile industry. She will be remembered affectionately by her daughter, Gudrun Peterson-Allen, her grandson Sean Allen and her son in law, James F. Allen, all of Pembroke, as well as her very good Brockton neighbors and friends. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made in her name to The American Cancer Society For Colo-Rectal Research, 1115 West Chestnut St., Brockton, MA 02301 or to The CFIDS Assoc. of America, P.O. Box 220398 Charlotte, NC 28222-0398. Arrangements by the Shepherd Funeral Home, PEMBROKE.