Lester Herman Heitman, age 62 of 1915 N. 1400th Ave., Camp Point, died Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 8:56 a.m. in Blessing Hospital.

He was born December 19, 1943 in LaGrange, Missouri, the son of Herman and Iona Begeman Heitman. On September 4, 1964 he married Virginia (Ginger) Booher in Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Quincy. She survives.

Mr. Heitman was a 1961 graduate of Quincy High School. He served in the U. S. Air Force during the Viet Nam War. He was employed as a Mintrate Assistant Foreman at Moorman Mfg. Co. and retired after 30 years due to his illness. Lester was a good family man and was able to build everything to last. He loved his family and especially his granddaughter.

Survivors include a daughter, Heidi Heitman and a son Heath Heitman both of Camp Point; a granddaughter Ashley Moore of Camp Point; a sister, Sandra Peters and her husband Gary of Fowler, a nephew and God child, Trent Vogel and his wife Emily of Quincy and a niece, Tiffeny Vogel of Quincy. He is also survived by numerous other nieces and nephews and aunts and uncles. He was preceded in death by his parents and grandparents and his uncle Harold Begeman.

Services will be Monday, April 24, 2006, 11 a.m. in Hansen-Spear Funeral Home with the Rev. Larry Troxel officiating. Burial will be in Quincy Memorial Park. Visitation will be Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the Dialysis Unit at Blessing Hospital or Our Redeemer Lutheran Church.