Yuma County CO Archives Obituaries.....Heindel, William March 1, 1956
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Thursday, March 8, 1956 Wray Gazette
William Heindel, Sr., builder, businessman and civic leader in Wray and Yuma 
County for more than 60 years, died early Thursday morning of last week at the 
Wray Community Hospital after a long period of declining health.  He was 85 
years, 7 months and 17 days old at the time of his death.

Mr. Heindel was born July 14, 1870 at Galesburg, Illinois, a son of John and 
Hedwig (Kinkle) Heindel, Bavarian immigrants to the United States.  He grew up 
in Canan township, Henry County, Iowa, and when he was 17 came to what was 
then Weld County and now is Yuma County, Colorado.  He helped on the homestead 
and lived at home until he was 25, then on January 23, 1845, he was married to 
Sophie Renzelman and to them eight children were born.

He homesteaded, then became a builder and contractor.  He built most of the 
older buildings in Wray, including many of the buildings on Wray's Main 
Street, many homes, churches and other public buildings.  His last contracting 
job was the first Yuma High School building that is now the Masonic Hall in 
Wray.  In 1912 he made a partnership with the late Ed Robinson and entered the 
automobile business.  In 1917 he sold his interest in the business but kept 
the building, then left on an automobile tour of the west coast.  In 1918 he 
returned to Wray and with the late Harvey Speicher purchased the automobile 
business again.  The business later became William Heindel and Son and is now 
operated as the Heindel Motor Company with one of his sons, T. A. Heindel as 
the owner.

In 1922 Mr. Heindel was named as county road supervisor by the county 
commissioners of Yuma County.  He held this job until he retired in 1945 at 
the age of 75 years.  Under his supervision nearly all of the county road 
system was laid out, elevated and surfaced.  He was considered one of the 
outstanding road builders of the state.

Mrs. Heindel preceded him in death on November 22, 1949.  Surviving are his 
eight children; W. H. Heindel of Casper, Wyoming, C. F. Heindel of Dufur, 
Oregon, E. T. Heindel of Whittier, California, Marie Keenan of Denver, T. A. 
Heindel of Wray, Bertha Brownlee of Wray, Kathryn Shroyer of Greeley and R. K. 
Heindel of Dallas, Texas; two brothers, John Heindel of Idaho Falls, Idaho and 
Tom Heindel of Shell Beach, California; 13 grandchildren and 21 great 
grandchildren.

Funeral services were held at the Calvary Lutheran Church of which he was a 
member, Sunday afternoon with the Rev. M. H. Elmshauser officiating and burial 
was at the Grandview Cemetery.



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