(Research):Lyle E. Heck
Funeral services for Lyle E. Heck, 68, 302 S. 16th Ave. W., a resident of Newton most of his life, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 9, at Wallace-Pence Funeral Home.
The Rev. James Black, pastor of the Newton Foursquare Church, and the Rev. Robert Hinshaw, pastor of Ashton Chapel, will conduct services.
Burial will be in Newton Union Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home after noon today. Visitation with the family will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Memorials in his name will be accepted.
Mr. Heck died of cancer Wednesday morning at Skiff Medical Center.
Survivors are his wife, Vivian Lucille; three sons and daughters-in-law, Nick Joseph and Joyce and John William and Karen, all of Newton and Edward Lee and Cindi of Grinnell; two daughters, Mary Ann (Mrs. Rick) Brown of Kellogg and Rhonda Rae (Mrs. Tim) Saunders of Newton; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are four brothers and sisters-in-law, Rex and Evelyn of Colfax, Howard and Donna of Newton, Nick Jr. and Mary and Bill and Theda, all of Greenville, Tenn.., two sisters, Berniece Collins and Merle Bledsoe, both of Gary, Ind., and a sister-in-law, Clyde Heck of Maynardville, Tenn.
He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother, Bob, and a great-granddaughter, Jessica Lindley.
Mr. Heck was a member of the United Auto Workers Retirees Union, Local 997, Newton American Legion Post 111, Newton Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1655 and the Newton Moose Lodge. He was an Army veteran of World War II.
Mr. Heck was a 34-year employee of the Maytag Co., Dept. 9, conventional assembly, retiring in 1987.
The son of Nick Demus and Olive Yokely Heck, he was born Nov. 2, 1927 in Knoxville, Iowa.
He was married to Vivian Lucille Townsend Jan. 25, 1948 at the Foursquare Church in Newton. ~ The Newton Daily News, March 7, 1996