John Heaton

HEATON

Posted By: Rebecca Foster (email)
Date: 7/6/2014 at 21:47:52

John Heaton

DAVENPORT - Services for John W. Heaton, 77, of Davenport, will be 11:30 a.m. Friday at Runge Mortuary and Crematory, Davenport. Burial will be in Davenport Memorial Park.

Visitation is 4 - 8 p.m. today at the mortuary. Mr. Heaton died Monday, May 25, 1998, at Genesis Medical Center East Campus, Davenport.

He had served 23 years on the Davenport Police Department. He retired in 1978 as division chird. From 1978 to 1981, he served as a chief deputy sheriff for the Scott County Sheriff's Department.
He was born Jan. 28, 1921, in Birmingham, Ala., to John W. and Constance (Griffiths) Heaton. He married Virginia Russell on May 29, 1947, at St. John's United Methodist Church, Davenport. Mr. Heaton had served in the Army Air Corps during World War II.

He was a member of St. John's United Methodist Church, Davenport. He also was a member of Iowa Police Association Local 2, Iowa State Police Association, Iowa Association of Chiefs of Police and Peace Officers, Quad-City Council of Police Chiefs, International Narcotic Enforcement Officers Association, Fraternal Lodge 221, Moose Lodge 28, American Association of Retired Persons, Quad-City Times Plus 60 Club, Scott County Iowa Genealogical Society. John had a strong love for gardening and his dog, Flash.

Memorials may be made to American Heart Association. Survivors include his wife; a son, John W. III and Pamela Heaton, Vienna, Austria; a grandson, John W. Heaton IV, Vienna; a niece, Sandra Rogers, Orlando, Fla.; and a nephew, R.J. Albright, Boring, Ore.

Source: The Quad City Times, 27 May 1998.