This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Heckes, Lanpear, Nickens, Hurst Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5d.2ADI/2295 Message Board Post: Payette Independent Payette, Idaho Thursday, April 26, 1923 Obituary Henry William Heckes was born in Elba, Nebraska, May 23, 1895, and died in Boise, Idaho, April 19, 1923, following a serious automobile accident. Sixteen years ago he moved with his parents to Idaho, and settled near Fruitland, where he has lived almost continuously since. Most of his schooling was received in the Fruitland schools, in which he was a good student and took a great interest in school athletics. Following his school days he was engaged with his brother John in the automobile business in Fruitland, and later was proprietor of the Fruitland Feed Store. July 30, 1921, he was married to Miss Hazel Lanpear. April 1, 1923, they moved to Boise, where they have lived the short time since. Besides his wife, he is survived by his mother, Mrs. Dorothea Heckes of Fruitland; two sisters, Mrs. Bob Nickens of Fresno, California and Mrs. Roy Hurst of Redlands, California; three brothers; John of Boise, and George and Carl who live with their mother in Fruitland, besides ! a host of friends. Harry was considered by all who knew him, a young man of the steadier sort, industrious, and a man of principle. He will be greatly missed, as Fruitland has lost one of its finest young men, and one of the kind who is not so easily found. He was always cheerful and of a sunny disposition, which made for him friends wherever he went. Funeral services were held from the Brethren church Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock, and interment (unreadable section of words) in Riverside cemetery. The Elks took charge at the grave, as he was a member of the Elks Lodge at Nampa. Note: The headstone and the Idaho Death Index list his name as Harry William Heckes. ch