Heather Marie Hurkmans, 36, died Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024, at Marshfield Medical Center in Iron Mountain, Mich. She courageously fought metastatic breast cancer, which had spread to her spinal fluid.

Heather was born on July 15, 1988, in Lake St. Louis, Mo., to Phyllis Marie Lenk Ricardez and Lance David Graves., and two stepsisters, Ashley Brown and Brittany

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