Knute Heng

Knute Heng, age 100, formerly of Minneapolis, MN, died Tuesday, July 5, 2005 at the Sunnyside Care Center, Lake Park, MN.Knute was born on November 13, 1904 to Ole and Rolfsina Heng in Stavamger, Norway where he attended school up to the eighth grade.In 1922 he came to the United States and traveled to Minneapolis where he stayed with an aunt. As time went by, he did farm work in southern Minnesota and eastern North Dakota. He also worked in a lumber camp in northern Wisconsin as well as an automobile plant in Flint, Michigan. Eventually, he settled down in Minneapolis and married Olga Johanson on August 19, 1933. He began working at Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis and worked his way up from a fireman in the power plant, to a second class engineer, to a first class engineer and finally to the chief engineer in the power plant of the hospital. Knute retired from the hospital in 1969.During his retirement, he built a cabin near Maple Lake, Minnesota where Olga and he entertained friends and relatives. Olga and he also delivered Meals on Wheels for a number of years to folks, some of whom, were younger than they. They also visited their children in Canada and the Midwest.Knute was at one time a member of the Norwegian Memorial Lutheran Church in Minneapolis and also attended St. Paul's Lutheran Church where his children had been members. He was a member of the International Union of Operating Engineers.He was preceded in death by his wife, Olga and is survived by one son, Rolf Evangeline Heng, Rollag, MN; and one daughter, Nancy Glen Adams, St. Albert, Alberta, Canada; seven grandchildren; and thirteen great-grandchildren.