Brian R Heacock

HEACOCK ATKISON SCHWARTZKOPF

Posted By: Connie Swearingen (email)
Date: 4/11/2010 at 22:23:25

Sioux City Journal
29 January 2003

Brian R. Heacock, 52, of Sioux City died Monday, Jan. 27, 2003, at his residence.

Services will be 10 a.m. Friday at Morningside Lutheran Church, with the Rev. Kevin Lee officiating. Graveside services will be 4 p.m. Friday in Lincoln Memorial Cemetery, Lincoln, Neb. Visitation will be 3 to 8 p.m. today, with the family present 6 to 8 p.m., at Christy-Smith Morningside Chapel.

Mr. Heacock was born March 11, 1950, in Kearney, Neb., the son of Jay Gerow and Mary Lorene (Atkison) Heacock. He was raised in Kearney, where he attended Kearney Public Schools through the ninth grade. He moved to Lincoln in 1965, where he graduated from Lincoln Northeast High School in 1968. He attended the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he received a bachelor of science degree in business administration in 1972. He received his J.D. from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln College of Law in 1975. He was an R.O.T.C. officer while attending college. He resided in Lincoln until 1975, when he enlisted in the U.S. Army and moved to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo. He served in the Judge Advocate General Corps from 1975 to 1978.

He married Suzie Schwartzkopf on July 28, 1972, in Nebraska. In 1978, the family moved to South Sioux City. Following his discharge, he went to work for Great West Casualty Co. in December 1978. While at Great West, he worked primarily in subrogation and claims. He was currently serving as vice president of Claims-Midwest Region. He had also earned the certified property casualty underwriter designation. The family moved to Sioux City in 1997, where they have resided ever since.

He was a member of Morningside Lutheran Church, the Optimist Club, Nebraska State Bar Association and Beta Theta Pi Fraternity. He also served as a Junior Achievement teacher.

Survivors include his wife, Suzie Heacock of Sioux City; his mother, Mary Lorene Heacock of Sioux City; his children, Amy and her husband, James Anderson, of Lincoln, Tom Heacock and his wife, Christie, of Olathe, Kan., and Katie and Sarah Heacock, both of Sioux City; three nieces, Kaile and Hannah Schroff, both of Lincoln and Dorothy Grace Schwartzkopf of Mankato, Minn.; his parents-in-law, Sam and Dorothy Schwartzkopf of Lincoln; a sister-in-law and her husband, Christie and Cliff Schroff of Lincoln; a brother-in-law and his wife, Louis and Becky Schwartzkopf of Mankato, Minn.; and several aunts, uncles, cousins and friends.

He was preceded in death by his father, Jay Gerow Heacock; and a brother, David C. Heacock.

Pallbearers will be Hugh Fugleberg, Leonel Herrera, Mike Krehbiel, Pat Kuehl, Rick Larson, Joe Lemek, Eric Rosenbaum, Gaylen TenHulzen and Scott Wilson.

Memorials will be directed to the Brian R. Heacock Memorial for depression research.