January Heimerl Petrie

January 15, 1921 –

January Heimerl Petrie passed away at LifePath Hospice in Sun City Center  on August 30, 2011. January was born to Frank and Gabriela Heimerl on January 15, 1921 at St. Nazianz, Wisc. She graduated from St. Mary Springs Academy and the University of Wisconsin at Madison where she received a BA degree in Institutional Management and Hospital Dietetics. She interned at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. and served for two years in the Army Medical Service as a Lieutenant. After discharge she directed and taught dietetics for four years at the Jennie Edmundson Hospital, Council Bluffs, Iowa.  After her marriage to Robert Petrie, she consulted for many small hospitals and nursing homes in Wisconsin, along with precepting for twenty Food Service Manager students, as well as teaching LPNs and Aides at the Technical Institute in Sheboygan, Wisc. The Petries moved to Sun City Center in 1986. Her hobbies included antique collecting, especially antique dolls. She was a member of the Questers and Pelican Players, on stage as well as house and party management. She was a member of the American Legion Post No. 246. January was a licensed pilot and traveled extensively. Survivors are her daughter Suzette and her husband Steven Becker, and their two adopted sons, Matthew and Jonathon of Two Rivers, Wisc. A dear sister, Jacqueline and her husband Ron Vogt, and four nieces and nephews in the Illinois and Wisconsin area. A funeral Mass will be said at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Sept. 22 at Prince of Peace Catholic Church in Sun City Center. Internment will be in the family plot in St. Nazianz, Wisc.