Alta Heckendorn
1898 - 1987 (88 years)-
Name Alta Heckendorn Birth 10 Nov 1898 Maryborough Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada 
Gender Female Death 1 Mar 1987 High River, Alberta, Canada Burial Memory Gardens, Breslau, Ontario, Canada 
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Alta Clemens, nee Heckendorn - Find A Grave: 206755469Person ID I423 Descendants of Robert McKnight Last Modified 23 Apr 2020
Family Orvel Moody Leroy Clemens, b. 30 Apr 1900, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada d. 9 Mar 1967, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (Age 66 years) Marriage 10 Jun 1924 Children 1. Norma Lucille "Squeal" Clemens, b. 25 Apr 1930, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada d. 9 Sep 1968, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada (Age 38 years)Family ID F130 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 22 Jun 2015
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Birth - 10 Nov 1898 - Maryborough Township, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada 
Death - 1 Mar 1987 - High River, Alberta, Canada 
Burial - - Memory Gardens, Breslau, Ontario, Canada = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Alta Clemens, nee Heckendorn
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Notes - "For many years Alta Heckendorn and Orville farmed at Hespeler, on Fisher Mill Road and many an enjoyable summer's holidays I spent there with them. My mother would take me by the electric passenger train departing from the Queen Street S. Station in Kitchener, with stops at Rockway, Centreville, Freeport with a change-over at the Preston Station, then onto the Hespeler depot. The main line continued south from Preston, through Galt to Port Dover..... Some of the experiences this city boy remembers from those days were: swimming at the Fisher Mill Pond with my cousins; going to Snyder's Potato Chip factory for "big" brown paper bags of chips; gathering eggs from chicken coop and looking for any that had nested on the loose; fetching the cattle from the cedar swamp below the orchard, sinking up to my boot-tops in muck and watching out for cow-paddies; riding on the tractor with my cousin Robert and him getting me to eat choke berries when I didn't know what they were or how they tasted; having to shovel grain"
"My worst experience, this I dreaded, was having to catch chickens for butchering with a long, wire rod that had a hook in the end to grab the chicken by the legs. Aunt Alta usually did the head chopping, but yours truly quite often did the dipping in boiling water and plucking of the feathers. Their produce, milk and chickens were distributed throughout Hespeler on a route that I was allowed to help with on occasion".
Memories from from Howard , nephew to Alta.
- "For many years Alta Heckendorn and Orville farmed at Hespeler, on Fisher Mill Road and many an enjoyable summer's holidays I spent there with them. My mother would take me by the electric passenger train departing from the Queen Street S. Station in Kitchener, with stops at Rockway, Centreville, Freeport with a change-over at the Preston Station, then onto the Hespeler depot. The main line continued south from Preston, through Galt to Port Dover..... Some of the experiences this city boy remembers from those days were: swimming at the Fisher Mill Pond with my cousins; going to Snyder's Potato Chip factory for "big" brown paper bags of chips; gathering eggs from chicken coop and looking for any that had nested on the loose; fetching the cattle from the cedar swamp below the orchard, sinking up to my boot-tops in muck and watching out for cow-paddies; riding on the tractor with my cousin Robert and him getting me to eat choke berries when I didn't know what they were or how they tasted; having to shovel grain"