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By Lori Haugen St. Paul. 1986, added on a 208-bed senior
Soon after he retired from the citizen apartment complex, Ap-
Taff Writer military in 1966, the workers at pie Valley Villa. S" t
a r r y Lemieux will be the nursing home went on strike, The Apple Valley home was ;
?membered for the energy, the r ; and the home was closed. The the first of its kind in the area fl. rt
~nacity and the devotion he Lemieuxs mortgaged their "We felt it was needed," Pearl gal
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lroured into everything he did home and bought the nursing said. She said with so many
Lemieux, a Minnesota pioneer home. During the next few young families in the area, itu t~o"` x
decades, Pearl became a nurse made sense to have a place form
in health care for seniors, died b'
parents.
June 16 at United Hospital in St. y and Harry, as president
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Pearl older describes her
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During his 69 years, he led a Care Facilities, became a leader as a man who could get things
+istinguished career in the U.S. in health care for seniors. done. "He was a very energetic s cm.
and followed that with a "`He was a pioneer in the entrepreneur. When he set out to a sane lJ~e
second career as owner of the Harry Lemieux health care field, a leader," said do a job, he was fully devoted to
Apple Valley Health Care his daughter Pearl. it.° of Eagan "s
Center, Apple Valley Villa and the Navy, and during his 22-year "He was involved in seeing "Health care was a way of life
Southview Acres Health Care career, served several years in that people could be cared for for my parents," said daughter
Center in West St. Paul. the South Pacific during World properly without having to have Pearl, of Stillwater. Fouh
~w, rr „a ti „ inn efiflina laws " caul his wife In addition to his wife and
byist, having worked for health warfare specialist. Through the years, the couple daughter, he is survived by
care and veterans' rights issues. Lemieux and his wife, Pearl, also added 186 beds to the facili- three other daughters, Renee of Lev
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Lemieux, a 25-year resident of had settled in Mendota Heights ty, bringing the total number of White Bear Lake, Theresa , Eagan, was born in St. Paul and
in 1950, and she worked as beds to 257. Nelson of Alexandria and Judy
uated from the old Mar- business office manager at In 1983, they built the Apple of Cloquet, and two sons, John of enh
rad
w shall High School. Southview Acres Health Care Valley Health Care Center, a Eagan and Edward of West St.
As a young man, he enlisted in Center, a nursing home in West Zoo-bed nursing home, and in Paul.