Nile Heilman

Funeral Services for Nile Dugan Heilman, of Albert Lea will be held at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, November 9, 2013 at First Lutheran Church, Albert Lea. The Reverend Al Stoa will officiate. Interment will be in Lakewood Cemetery. Visitation will be from 4:00 p.m. –7:00 p.m. on Friday at Bonnerup Funeral Service, Albert Lea, and one hour before services at the church. Nile died on Tuesday, November 5, 2013 at St. John's Lutheran Home, Albert Lea. He was 75. He was born on November 9, 1937, in Albert Lea, the son of Merle and Lillian (Wangen) Heilman. The family moved to Minneapolis/St. Paul and Nile graduated from
St. Paul Park High with the class of 1957. He had participated in football, hockey, and track. He and his dad worked as cooks in a metropolitan restaurant and then returned to Albert Lea, where together, they cooked at the Skyline Supper Club. He married Janet Boelke on May 15, 1971. Later in his career he cooked at the Albert Lea Inn, now Knights Inn, and then worked at Walmart for several years before retiring. He was a member of First Lutheran Church.
He was a very avid sports fan, enjoyed participating in his younger years, and keeping up with the Minnesota Gophers and other professional teams
throughout the years. He enjoyed fishing, camping and traveling up-north. Nile is survived by his son Jason Heilman and his wife Frances; brother-in-law Richard Boelke and his wife Frieda; aunt Lorraine Provo, all of Albert Lea, and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife Janet on March 9, 2012, his parents Merle and Lillian Heilman, his father-in-law and mother-in-law Clarence and Catherine Boelke, brother-in-law and sister-in-law Roger and Zetta Boelke.