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Marvin Heitkamp

Services for Marvin Heitkamp will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 31, at St. Adrian Catholic Church in Adrian. The Revs. Gerald Kosse and David Krogman will officiate. Burial will be in the parish cemetery.

Visitation is from 4 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 30, with a rosary service at 4:30 p.m. and parish prayers at 7:30 p.m. at Dingmann Funeral Home in Adrian. Visitation is also from 10 to 10:45 a.m. at the funeral home on Friday.

Marvin "Marvie" Heitkamp, 66, Sioux Falls, S.D., formerly of Adrian, died Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003, at Avera McKennan Hospital in Sioux Falls.

Marvie Heitkamp was born to Anton and Alvina (Klein) Heitkamp on Aug. 17, 1936, in Adrian. He grew up in Adrian and attended school in Adrian. He graduated from St. Adrian Catholic High School in 1955.

He worked at IBP in Luverne for more than 34 years. He later worked at Gateway in Sioux Falls.

Mr. Heitkamp was a member of St. Adrian Catholic Church in Adrian; Alcoholics Anonymous and celebrated 11 years of sobriety. He enjoyed fishing, camping and dancing.

Survivors include his special friend, Kay Sieler, Sioux Falls; Kay’s family, Thomas Nickel, Montevideo, Tammy Wright, Sioux Falls, and Megan and Jared; four children, Jolene Lofthus, Maple Grove; Connie (Kevin) Nowotny, Michelle (Chad) Loosbrock, all of Adrian, and Jeff (Kristi) Heitkamp, Sioux Falls; seven grandchildren, Cole, Dani, Tanner, Brett, Sam, Nathan and Taylor; one brother, Jim (Alice) Heitkamp, Sioux Falls; and three sisters, Diane Ermler, Spirit Lake, Iowa, Doreen Friedman, Sioux Falls, and Donna Henriksen, Litchfield.

Mr. Heitkamp was preceded in death by his parents, his son-in-law, Scott Lofthus, and one brother, Don Heitkamp.

Dingmann Funeral Home, Adrian, is in charge of arrangements.

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