Roy Kenneth Heimer died Feb. 26, 2006, at Blue Mountain Hospital. He was 91.

Services were held Mar. 4 at Grace Chapel in Prairie City with Pastor Darrell Johnson officiating.

Mr. Heimer was born Dec. 7, 1914, in Douglas, Kan. to Henry Lee and Nellie May Heimer. He was a farmer as a young boy in Kansas with his father. He joined the U.S. Army in 1941. He spent six months in the Southwest Pacific as a chief switchboard operator, where he operated the field wing headquarters of nearby islands.

When he was out of the Army, he started working for the Union Pacific Railroad, and married his first wife, Bertha James, in Boise, Idaho. He acquired three step-children, which he later adopted, and they had a son together. Bertha died in 1987.

Mr. Heimer met and married Ellen Larkin of Burns and gained four stepsons. In 1990, they moved to Prairie City, where their door was always open and the coffeepot was always on. Ellen died in 1998. Mr. Heimer lived in their home until two weeks before his death.

Mr. Heimer is survived by his three adopted children, Bertha, and husband, Jerry Norris, of Buhl, Idaho; Mary Samuelson of Greenleaf, Idaho; Sharon Bailey of Burns; son, Jimmy, and his wife, Mary, of Burns; stepsons, Barney Larkin and his wife, Valerie, and family of John Day, Jim Larkin, and his wife, Ann, and family of Loveland, Calif., Larry Larkin and his wife, Billie, and family of Prineville, and John Larkin and his wife, Diane, and family of Portland; ten grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren, four of which he was very close, Nicole and Trevor Heimer, Linda and Al Presley of Burns, Kenny and Judith and boys of Ariz.

Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of one’s choice through Driskill Memorial Chapel, 241 S. Canyon Blvd., John Day, OR 97845.