Eleanor Mae (Emmington) Heinemann

Eleanor Mae (Emmington) Heinemann

Mar. 13, 1927 –Mar. 30, 2023

Eleanor Mae (Emmington) Heinemann, 96, died March 30, 2023 due to a head injury from a fall in her apartment. She was born on March 13, 1927 to William and Mary (McGlade) Emmington in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.

Eleanor grew up in Ritzville, Wash. where she attended school until she and her parents moved to the family wheat farm near Sprague. She graduated from Sprague High School in 1945 before attending Washington State College.

In 1946, Eleanor married Eugene Heinemann and they operated a dryland wheat and cattle farm in the Ritzville...