- She is survived by four children-Roxanne Heide Pierce of Pleasant Plains, Wisconsin and her twin sister, Judith Heide Gilliland of Amherst, New Hampshire; sons, David Parry Heide of Kenosha, Wisconsin and Parry Heide of Madison, Wisconsin; eight grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. Her son, Christen Heide, died in 2004.
- She spent her childhood in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania. Her father, a banker, died in 1921.
- She studied at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania before moving to California where she graduated with a Bachelor's Degree from the University of California in Los Angeles.
- She had worked in public relations and advertising in New York City and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She moved to Wisconsin after World War II with her husband, Donald C. Heide, a Captain in the United States Army Air Forces who was also a lawyer. He died in 1992.
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