Frank Leon Heavrin

Obituary

May 12, 1916 – Dec. 22, 2004

Buried at Brownlee Cemetery

Frank Heavrin, 88, of Emmett, passed away Wednesday, December 22, 2004 at St. Al’s Hospital in Boise after an accident while doctoring a horse.

Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday, December 30, at Potter Funeral Chapel in Emmett. Interment will follow at the Brownlee Cemetery near Sweet.

Frank was born May 12, 1916 at “Grandma” Church’s home in Dry Buck near Banks to Harry C. & Laverne Johnson Heavrin. He grew up playing in the rocks and dry hills of Sweet, Dry Buck & Banks. The family moved a lot and he changed schools several times. On one move from Banks to Spring Valley between Christmas and New Years he quit school having finished the 5th grade. He started his life long ranching career herding pigs for a farmer in Spring Valley at age 12.

On October 14, 1935 he married Esther M. Pratt at Boise. Six children were born to this union. The family raised Hereford cattle starting at Brownlee and then Cascade. Frank worked for several ranchers while the family was growing up. He worked many years for the Payette River Cattle Association, running cattle in Bear Valley. They drove the cattle starting at Letha to Horseshoe Bend to Banks and on to Crouch, over the mountain to Deadwood and then to Bear Valley.

In the early 1970s Frank and Esther ended 35 years of marriage. He was working in Stanley at this time. He was a true cowboy and always had a horse around. For the next 30 years he dearly loved going to Stanley for the summer to irrigate and run cows. He had many friends in Emmett, Garden Valley, Lowman and Stanley. He never met a stranger and was a kind, loving gentle man. We will all miss him.

He is survived by many friends, family and people who loved him dearly including his six children, Mary Lee (Kenneth) Biggers, Boise; Larry (Joyce) Heavrin, Emmett; Don (Janet) Heavrin, Boise; Audrey (Butch) Hall, Star; Bonnie (Dave) DeChenne, Elgin, OR; Billie (Chick) Coelho, Ontario, OR; 16 grandchildren: Connie, Darlene, Jim, Jeanne, John, Julie, Judy, Tonya, Catherine, Wendy, Bob, Debbi, Pat, Pamela, Erik and Keith; 43 great-grandchildren; and a set of identical twin great-great-grandsons due next spring; two brothers, Al of Sweet and Glen (Blanche) of Meridian; sisters, Mildred Arthur of Conton, MS, baby sister, Vera Fix, Clarkston, WA; sister-in-law, Velma Heavrin and brother-in-law, Wallace Pratt and his special friends Charlie and Kathy Willard, Emmett.

He was preceded in death by his parents, brothers Carl, George and Clinton and sister Alice.

Dad, we love you and will miss you.

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