Eugene Joseph Heying

Other Events:

• Reference Number: 7151
• Graduation: 1952, St. Joseph High School, Remsen, Plymouth County, Iowa
• Milit_Beg: May 1954
• Milit_End: May 1956
• Undertaker: 22 Dec 1994, Remsen, Plymouth County, Iowa

Notes:

FamilySectionNote:
8 of 8

PerID:
7151

Obit:


Eugene Joseph Heying, 59, of Granville died Monday, Dec. 19, 1994, at his home near Granville after and eight-monght illness of cancer.

Services will be 10:30 a.m. Thursday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Granville with the Rev. Clem Currans officiating. Burial will be in the parish cemetery under the direction of the Fisch Funeral Home of Remsen. Visitation will beafter 4 p.m. today, with a parish rosary at 5 p.m. and a vigil prayer service at 7:30 p.m. at the church.

Mr. Heying was born Feb. 7, 1935, in rural Festina, the son of Aloysius and Marie (Kuennen) Heying. He moved with his family to the Granville area March 17, 1936. He attended St. Joseph School and graduated from St. Joseph High Schoolin 1952. He then attended Loras College. He entered the U.S. Army in May 1954 and served until May 1956, with seven-month service in Japan. He married Mary Ellen Graff July 25, 1955 in Granville. The couple farmed in the Granvillearea. He was a sales representative for Moorman Feeds and later spent 17 years as a representative for Pioneer Hi Bred International.

Mr. Heying served on the Board of Directors of the American State Bank and Farmer's Co-op Oil Co. He also served on St. Joseph's Church parish council and the Spalding Grade School advisory board. He was a member of the Knights ofColumbus, Granville Chamber of Commerce, and the Catholic Order of Foresters for more than 50 years.

Survivors include his wife, four daughters and their husbands, Jeanne and Franklin Van Es, Linda and Bob Reichle, Deb and Ron Fischer, all of Alton, cindy and Tim Young of Dallas, Texas; four sons, Randy and his wife, Barb of Alton, Deanand his wife, Melissa of Greensboro, N.C., John of West Des Moines and David of Granville and his fiancee Nicole Harmelink of Alton; 10 grandsons; eight granddaughters; his parents, Al and Marie Heying of Granville; two sisters, ArleneVortherms and Germaine and her husband Joe Knoz, all of Granville; three brothers, Ken and his wife, Dianne Heying of Sioux City, Leonard Heying of Granville and Steve and his wife, Patti Heying of San Antonio, Texas, and numberous niecesand nephews.

He was preceded in death by a brother-in-law, Erwin Vortherms.

Pallbearers will be Vernon Fintel, Marcel Klein, Leon Meis, Bill Penning, Doug Schuber and Darrel Steffes.

(This obituary appeared in the Le Mars, Iowa newspaper December 1994.)

Milit_Beg:
in the army

Milit_End:
with a seven month service in Japan

Undertaker:
Fisch Funeral Home

Died:
renal cell cancer

Eugene married 25 Jul 1955, Granville, Sioux County, Iowa.

Eugene — . [Family Group Sheet]