Tipp City Herald

HEIDE, FRED - Rites for Veteran Reporter - Fred Heide, Brandt correspondent for the New Carlisle Sun for the past 32 year, is dead. He died at 12:15 a.m. Monday in Stouder Memorial Hospital, Troy, at the aged of 77. He had been hospitalized for two weeks. Heide was born in Brandt August 1, 1895, is son of William and Nancy Bellaman Heide. He lived his entire life in that community and made his home with his sister at 6825 East Walnut Road. Heide retired from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in 1961 after 42 years of service with the Supply Division. He attended Brandt United Methodist Church and was a member of Brandt Lodge 711 IOOF, Bethel Grange 2494, the Brandt Fire Department for 25 years and the 25-year Club at Wright-Patterson. When Heide first started writing for the New Carlisle Sun, Ed Williams was the publisher. Heide remained with the company when Mr. and Mrs. Harry Mount took over, and continued his service in January of 1964 when Jack Bowling, publisher of Bowling-Moorman Publications, bought the local paper. He wrote his last column for the Sun on February 22nd, immediately before being hospitalized. Heide never married and was always available to do a good turn for a friend or attend a meeting. He is survived by two brothers, Guy of Springfield, and Max of Dayton, and the sister with whom he made his home, Mrs. Alfred (Nellie) Hanauer. Services for Heide will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday in the Trostel-Chapman Funeral Home, New Carlisle. The Reverend Thornton Black, pastor of the West Charleston Church of the Brethren will officiate. He will be assisted by the Reverend Bobby N. Davis, Calvary General Baptist Church, Phoneton, Ohio. IOOF services will be held at 7 p.m. and Bethel Grange services will be held at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Friends may call at the funeral home until 8 p.m. that day. Heide will be buried in the New Carlisle Cemetery. The family requests that contributions be made to favorite charities in Heide's memory.