Minot woman celebrates 100th birthday Saturday

Submitted Photo Bernadine Heily stays active going into her 100th year and enjoys a good cup of coffee.
Bernadine Heily, a longtime resident of Mohall and Minot, will celebrate her 100th birthday with family and friends on Saturday, Oct. 25.
Born and raised in Grano in 1925, Heily attended school in both Grano and Lockwood. She later moved with her parents, Robert and Josephine Wright, and her sisters, Helen and Estelle, to Mohall.
In 1945, Bernadine married Hugh Heily at St. Jerome’s Catholic Church. They established their home on the Thomas Heily farmstead in Hamlet Township before eventually purchasing their own farm just two miles from the Heily homestead. Bernadine and Hugh lived on their farm for 61 years, raising their family and enjoying all aspects of farm life. The couple also enjoyed traveling and spent 20 years wintering full-time in Arizona before moving permanently to Minot in 2011. They were married for 72 years until Hugh passed away at the end of 2017.
Heily stays busy crocheting, keeping up with the latest news by reading the Renville County Farmer and The Minot Daily News, attending her grandson’s hockey games and granddaughter’s dance and musical theater productions, playing cards and traveling around North Dakota and to Oregon to gather with family and friends.
Notes or birthday cards for Heily can be dropped off at Citizen State Bank to the attention of Jennifer Becker.