Obituary: Ernest "Ernie" VanHeel of Golden Valley
Service is Saturday, Feb. 2, 2013 at The Church of St. Margaret Mary in Golden Valley.
Ernest "Ernie" VanHeel of Golden Valley Feb. 20, 1924 - Jan. 29, 2013 Ernie was born in Freeport, Minnesota and grew up working hard on the family farm in St. Anthony, Minnesota. He moved to Minneapolis in 1944 to begin his career as a carpenter. In 1965, he started his own business as a remodeling contractor. He married Maryann Donovan in 1952 and they had six children. Preceded in death by parents, Peter and Catherine; brothers, Walter, Lee, and Raymond; sisters, Eleanor Weber and Juletta Hentges; grandchildren, Andrew and Christina Johnson. He is loved and will be dearly missed by Maryann, his wife of 60 years; children, Jim (Barbara), Susan Plesha, Joanne (Tom) Coughlin, Thomas (Laura), John (Kency), and Catherine (Dan) Johnson; 17 …
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