OBITUARY: Melvin Dean Heaps, Mitchell County, Iowa

[Mitchell County Press-News, online, www.mcpress.com, Posted 12/19/2001]


                             Melvin Heaps

Funeral services  was held Monday, Dec. 17, 2001 at  United Methodist
Church, St. Ansgar, for Melvin D. Heaps, age 66, of South Bend, IN, formerly
of  St. Ansgar. Rev. Jay Amundson  officiated. Burial was in the Newburg
Cemetery, Carpenter. Mr. Heaps died Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2001 at Baptist
Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas, after a brief illness.

Melvin Dean Heaps was born Feb. 24, 1935 in Boone, Iowa and was a long time
resident of the St. Ansgar area. He was a retired industrial engineer, a
member of the Masonic Lodge, Austin Shrine, Minnesota Osman Temple and
American Foundry Society.

Preceding him in death were his parents, Thomas and Rosia (Kelley) Heaps, a
brother Ross and a sister Betty Deal.

Those that survive him include his son, Melvin Jr. and wife, Nicole of
Maumelle, AR; three daughters, Deanna Trytten and husband Randy of St.
Ansgar, Donna Boerjan and husband Paul of St. Ansgar, Darla Theobald and
husband Tom of North Mankato, MN; twelve grandchildren and one
great-grandchild; two sisters, Agnes Conrad and Ruth Merrill both of
Boone, IA.



Copyright (c) 2001 by Kermit Kittleson
(Note: I am not necessarily related to the subject of the obituary.)
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