{"id":44990,"date":"2022-08-04T05:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-northernplainsindependent-com-uswp*.sitenm.com\/?p=44990?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2022-08-04T05:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T05:02:45","slug":"robert-and-helen-heikens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2022\/08\/04\/robert-and-helen-heikens\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"Robert and Helen Heikens"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Robert Harold \u201cBob\u201d Heikens,  92, died July 23, 2022, in an automobile accident outside  of the town of Nashua. His wife, Helen Marie Lauckner  Heikens, also died in the same incident.<br \/>\n\t  He was born Sept. 19, 1929, in Glasgow to Mike and Sylvia  Heikens. Helen was born May 17, 1935, in Grand Rapids, Minn., to William and Hilda Lauckner.<br \/>\n\t  Both Helen and Bob attended  Nashua Public Schools, where he graduated in 1947 and she in 1953.<br \/>\n\t  After high school, Bob spent time traveling and working in Iowa and California  until he returned to full-time farming in the Center  community southwest of Nashua.<br \/>\n\t  Helen grew up cooking for threshing crews and worked as a secretary in Glasgow after  graduation.<br \/>\n\t  They met at a Webb Pierce concert and, several dances and dates later, they were married on Nov. 20, 1954.<br \/>\n\t  In addition to farming with his brothers Al and Don, Bob was a board member for both the irrigation district and Nemont Telephone Company  for 40 years.<br \/>\n\t  Helen was a quintessential farm wife who planted huge gardens, raised chickens, provided three meals a day and was the cake decorating lady for over 20 years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44990"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=44990"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=44990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}