Mr. Speaker. I rise today to honor a woman who continually worked to nurture and to heal. not only the human body but the human spirit and soul as well. Dr. Friedy B. Heisler passed away last July in her Carmel Highlands home. Born. Sept. 16. 1900. in Switzerland. she graduated from the College of Neuchatel before immigrating to Chicago in 1924. Studying at the University of Illinois Medical School. Dr. Heisler finished her medical residency in psychiatry before opening a private practice in Chicago. Upon meeting her husband Francis. a civil rights and trade union attorney. Dr. Heisler moved to Carmel Highlands in 1948.
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