Connie M. (Heyrman) Anderson, 73, Green Bay, was welcomed into the arms of her angels on March 15th, 2026. She was at home with family when her remarkable life ended after a fight with an aggressive 'triple negative' breast cancer. True to her character, she never did surrender.

Connie was loved. She was born March 25, 1952, the third eldest of nine kids to Cliff and Dolores (Gerrits) Heyrman. She attended Denmark schools, and it was on the school bus at fourteen years of age where she met Lee (Leon) Anderson, the farm boy who became the man she would share her life with. When she was fifteen, Lee would get on the bus a few stops before her and throw the little kids out of the right rear seat. When Connie got on, she sat between him and the window and put her feet on the heater. St. Valentine's Day February 14, 2026, was their 56th wedding anniversary. If Connie was asked the secret to long marriage, her answer was a short 'Fight fair.'

She considered their marriage in 1970 to be a milestone, not the beginning. She and Lee went on their first date on May 24, 1968, when they were both in their 16th year. They have been inseparable since and what a ride it's been, starting with her driving Lee's dad's car with her learner's permit on Sundays, while Lee helpfully distracted her from the passenger seat.

In addition to being a homemaker without equal, Connie attended NWTC and spent most of her career in accounting and office management for small manufacturing and construction companies. She loved the parade of personalities and challenges that poured through the door every day, and the good folks in these companies appreciated and respected Connie. Although she tried a role in a sterile administrative office, her kind personality brought her back to a shop full of banged-up working guys where she would walk through a machine shop with a pail full of candy bars after lunch. And Connie loved her last job and the principals at Thompson Homes so much that she retired from them three times.

In her spare time, Connie walked about three miles almost every day for over twenty years in the Edison School neighborhood. In the process, she wore out a dozen pairs of good shoes, a Border Collie (Max,) and an Australian Shepherd (Molly) – no small feat, for such small feet.

Connie and Lee's work or play travels took them to dozens of states, Canada, Central America, some resorts and some back country in Mexico, a few Caribbean Islands, and a few cruises. The last cruise took them through the Panama Canal from east to west, beginning in Miami and ending in San Diego. Connie had fun, cooked up a remarkable repertoire of little adventures, made great memories, and left her footprints all over North and Central America.

As her career commitments lightened up, Connie finally found time to better know her (now adult) four grandkids, and to become close with her seven great-grand kids. She was so proud that they all knew Grandma and she knew them so well. Knowing the school-aged little ones would not understand why Puppy Grandma has gone, she devised a plan to help them through it. They were told Grandma was very sick, so they all sat with her and read her their favorite stories.

Connie is survived by her husband Lee, Green Bay, their son Ken (Julie) Anderson, and their daughter Jennifer Anderson. She is also survived by all of her four grandkids, Ella (Adam) Wussow, Collin (Gretchen) Anderson, Marie Williquette, and Laken (Derek Derouin) Anderson. She is also survived by all of her seven cherished great-grandchildren, Lily Wussow, Ethan Wussow, Dane Anderson, Aria Wussow, Ava Wussow, Chloe Anderson, and Ophelia Derouin.

All of Connie's siblings survive her; Terri Heyrman, Charlotte Nysse (Peter Baeten,) Joe (Ann) Heyrman, Jerry (Donna) Heyrman, LoAnn Heyrman, Mark Heyrman, Stuart (Kathy) Heyrman, and Julie (Dennis) DeGreef.

Connie is also survived by aunts and uncle Margaret Champeau, Mary Heyrman, Joan Heyrman, Warren Knighton, and many in-laws and their spouses on both the Heyrman and Anderson sides, many of her beloved 'dozens of cousins' and many nieces, nephews and friends.

Connie was preceded in death by her parents Cliff and Dolores (Gerrits) Heyrman, a lovely young niece Carrie (Joe and Ann) Heyrman, and, as their mortal bodies commanded it, five in-laws, (Richard Smith, Dorothy Smith, Chris Larsen, Warren Anderson, and Cliff Nysse) in addition to many elders, some cousins, and a few close friends.

Friends are welcome to call at the Pfotenhauer Funeral Home, 2379 E. Mason St., Green Bay, WI, on Thursday, April 02, 2026, between the hours of 4:00 PM and 7:30 PM. A non-denominational prayer service will follow. At Connie's request, her funeral will be very small and privately held.

Here respectfully acknowledging Unity Hospice (Nurse Dani and Social Worker Molly.) Also expressing deepest gratitude to daughter Jenny and Nancy VanderKinter- Froelich. These tireless ladies and so many more helped to ensure that Connie could live out her time at home in a state of grace with 24-hour care, and surrounded with love, family, friends, peace, and dignity.

As surely as Connie was loved in all of her days, so will she be loved in all of ours.