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- Seattle Times
March 19, 2006
Dr. Noel B. Heyrend passed away March 13, 2006 in Seattle, Washington. He was born on February 19, 1915 in Logan, Utah to Anna Benson Heyrend and Wilford W. Heyrend.
The family subsequently moved to Rigby, Idaho where he spent his childhood. He received his BS Degree from Utah State University. Following this he obtained a teaching fellowship at the University of Illinois where he earned his Masters degree and was pursuing his PhD when called into the US Military in 1941. He rose rapidly through the non-commissioned ranks to technical sergeant. In the fall of 1942 he entered anti-aircraft arterially Officers' Candidate School. Upon graduation he was sent to an anti-aircraft arterially brigade headquarters where he served for two years in WWII. When the air war ended in Europe in 1944, he was sent to the South Pacific, New Guinea and Luzon in the Philippines. At the war's end he was a Captain in command of an anti-aircraft battery. He returned to the United States and entered the University of Chicago Medical School, graduating with his MD Degree in 1950. After completing internship and residency training he practiced medicine in Seattle, WA for 30 years. He was Board Certified in Family Practice. Dr. Heyrend married Jeanne Pike Korsmo in 1981. He was a member of the University Masonic Lodge and the Nile Temple Shrine.
He is survived by his wife, Jeanne Pike Heyrend; his son, John Heyrend; two daughters, Martha Anderson and Suzanne Braun; granddaughter, Jamie Braun; and stepdaughters, Sheila Richardson. His sister, Ann Pinnock of South Jordan, Utah, also survives him.
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1915 - 2006 (91 years)
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