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Kenneth Louis Heine

23 Apr 1934 – 7 Sep 1952

Birth	23 Apr 1934
Death	7 Sep 1952
Cemetery	Saint Martins Cemetery Tours , McLennan County , Texas , USA
Added by	Andrea Berger Walston on 18 Jul 2022
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/53072267

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Married Two Months Rites Today For Brazos Victim By Betty Dollins, News-Tribune Staff Funeral services for Kenneth Heine, 18-year-old husband who learned just last week that he was to be a father, will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Mary’s Church of the Assumption. Burial will be in Tours Catholic Cemetery. Rev. J.J. Kearns, who performed the wedding ceremony which united young Heine and his 17-year-old bride in marriage two months ago, will officiate at the services. The young husband drowned Sunday afternoon in the Brazos River near Brenham. He had tried to wade and swim across the river. His body was recovered at 11 p.m. Sunday, almost seven hours after he went down. Proofs of wedding pictures remained unprinted Monday afternoon. The young couple had picked up the proofs and planned to return them to the photographer, but had put if off always until the next day. Mrs. Heine looked at the picture of two happy people Monday through tear-filled eyes. In her hand she held a piece of paper with a girl’s name and a boy’s name carefully written on it. They were the name selections for the couple’s unborn child, expected in about eight months. “He liked blue,” she said. “We both wore blue for the wedding.” Kenneth left for a tour with the band he played with Friday, and was scheduled to return home Monday. “We were going to a movie,” his wife said. “That’s about all he was interested in, movies and his guitar. He wanted to be a great musician.” Baby Already Named Three days before the young musician left with his band, the couple learned they were going to have a baby. “He had already named it,” she said, biting her lower lip. “He wants a boy and it is going to be Harold Robert. But just in case it isn’t a boy, he picked out a girl’s name, Liza Gail. He was so happy about it. If it is a boy, he can be an altar boy like Kenneth was when he was little.” Lola Mae saw Kenneth for the first time when he enrolled in the ninth grade at South Junior High School. “I wanted to meet him then, but he didn’t seem interested,” she said. “I was only in the eighth grade.” Started Going Steady On Sept. 13, 1951, Lola Mae went to a birthday party without a date, and Kenneth was there. He didn’t have a date either. The next night they didn’t see each other, but the next day he called for a date. “We started going steady then,” she said. “I always went where he was playing in the band, too, since he had to work at night.” Kenneth was playing with Charley Adams’ Western All-Stars band when they got married. He played his guitar with the band on their wedding night. He had gone last week end to Brenham to play for a dance. He and George Uptmore, another member of the band, went fishing and then decided to go for a swim. “He didn’t swim well,” his wife said. “I wanted to teach him. He used to take me all the time and sit in the car while I went swimming.” He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest T. Heine of 1522 Dutton; a brother, Virgil Heine, also of Waco. The Waco News Tribune, Waco, Texas, Tuesday, September 9, 1952, page 1 Courtesy of Find a Grave Contributor Betty Fajkus Marek # 48445083

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Lola Mae Smith Strittmatter 1935–1996 FaG

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