Cub Lake Sawyer County
Chippquamigan National Forest was 300 acres
Grampa Paul John Andrew Heike
Bought Cub Lake near Bear Lake
Nineteen thirties back taxes
Five thousand dollars
Eddie Fisher old wrestler sold for back taxes
Dad,Leon Norbert Heike youngest son
First Sargent Medical WWI France
Love to fish
Use to bow hunt the rifle hunt
Last ten years of his life
Sit and drink and pretend
Imagine dad wanted to go to the dock and fish
I know he did
Never did after his brother whom dad loved with his whole heart
Where’s family like that?
Norm died onstead of treat his colin cancer
Norms wife died two years before same villian
Cancer’s a filthy foe!
Dad sat in Norms workshop in basement cabin
Drank and cried
Dad died alone North Gate Waukon Iowa
We were not called
Dad was cremated
I wanted the man
Never father or friend laid to rest where he loved best
Ellen as if it were her desire then too
So dads ash are in Muskee and Turtle bay
Now he sits with Norm and Wava
Watch the lake
Walks around it
I have not seen the lake since
May 2014
Blue Hills of northern Wisconsin
Pulls my heart
Wish I had a woman to share life there
Cub Lake Heike Family Stories
Heike family hope and dreams
Sealed with the earth and the water
There dads knees are not a problem
Dad walks free
No more painful joints
Loved hillbillie red black or felt hats
Cowboy shirt his bamboo rod near by
Only saw dad cry once
April 1978 I was off to boot camp.
You never said it dad
But I miss you Dad!
