David Allen Heck, 80, went home to be with our Lord and Savior Jan. 23, 2019 with family by his side.
\nMr. Heck was born Oct. 29th, 1938 in Cimarron, New Mexico to Mathias and Ida Heck. He was a very loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather.
\nMr. Heck attended grade school in Cimarron, New Mexico and attended Jr high and high school in Hereford, Texas. Mr. Heck served in the United States Air Force during 1957 to 1960. He married Barbara Ann Martin on July 2nd, 1960 and resided in Hereford, Texas until his move in 1970 to Ute Park, New Mexico with his wife and children where he adored the mountains and fresh air. He worked as a General Contractor from 1970 to 1999 and owned and operated Heck\u2019s Hungry Traveler located in Cimarron NM.
\nMr. Heck enjoyed traveling with his wife, fishing with his children, family reunions, and many wonderful years of attending his children\u2019s and grandchildren\u2019s school events and activities. Mr. Heck was known as Dave to his many friends, David to his siblings and family, and GranDavid and GeeCaw to his grandchildren.
\nDavid is survived by his wife of 59 years, Barbara Ann Heck of Ute Park, New Mexico, a son David Douglas Heck and wife Misty of Overland Park, Kansas, four daughters, Cheri Heck Reynolds and husband Barry of Yukon Oklahoma, Valrie Heck Norris and husband Dean of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Rhonda Heck and Rick LeDoux of Yukon, Oklahoma, Lisa Heck Hickman and husband Bill of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 7 grandsons, 4 granddaughters, 8 great grandchildren and a sister Louise Holt of Nebraska.
\nHe is preceded in death by his father and mother Mathias Heck and Ida Campbell, 4 sisters, Elinor Olson, June West, Laura Parker, Elaine Milligan and brother Matt Heck.
\nA memorial is pending.<\/p>\n
We wish to tell you how much you mean to us all<\/em> You listened, you laughed, and you stood so very strong<\/em> We love you with our hearts and souls and it pains us to our core<\/em> Rest with sweet Jesus now because you have earned your wings<\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David Allen Heck, 80, went home to be with our Lord and Savior Jan. 23, 2019 with family by his side. Mr. Heck was born Oct. 29th, 1938 in Cimarron, New Mexico to Mathias and Ida Heck. He was a very loving husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather. Mr. Heck…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":47188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-obituaries","entry","rows-excerpt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47166"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47201,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47166\/revisions\/47201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/krtnradio.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nYou gave us love and care and encouragement and made sure we wouldn\u2019t fall<\/em><\/p>\n
\nYou did that for your family because it was family that you longed<\/em><\/p>\n
\nBut we know where you are now, and in the Heavens, you have soared<\/em><\/p>\n
\nAnd we will forever think of you when we hear the Heavens sing<\/em>
\nForever and ever we love you<\/em><\/p>\n