LEWISTON, Minn. – Iris E. (Heublein) Haake, 93, a career nurse at Mayo Clinic, died home on the family farm near Enterprise After high school she was determined to become a nurse. She attended the St. Mary’s Nursing School in Rochester. She worked at the Mayo Clinic hospital system until her retirement.
A personal memory
“Am forever grateful to Iris as a friend to my mother who at age 85 had moved to the Arches from Spokane and knew hardly anyone here and couldn’t drive anymore. Iris and her swimming pal Marge Wolfe jaunted everywhere with my mom, almost like school girls. It was the Rushford creamery one weekend, the Elba Inn another, then to Harmony to visit the Amish. Then too was a noon concert at Mayo’s Gonda lobby. And lunch at Michael’s. And a first-hand tour and lesson in the glories of Enterprise when it was a thriving stagecoach and mule-skinner stop on Rush Creek on the Minnesota Territorial Trail. Always a new adventure. And sometimes with Iris’ Roy and me along for the ride. These were wonderful people.” – John Vivian, editor