1. Birth: 5 FEB 1930 in Berlin, Somerset Co., Pennsylvania 2 3 4 7
2. ENL: 4 MAR 1943 Altoona, Pennsylvania
3. Note: Enlistment 2
4. Death: 5 MAY 1982 in Somerset Co., Pennsylvania 3 11 12 7
5. Burial: Wills Village, Somerset Twp., Somerset Co., PA
6. Note: Wills Lutheran Cemetery, AKA St.John's Lutheran 13
7. Religion: Lutheran 7

He was a member of Faith Lutheran Church; Laurel Ridge Sportsmen Association; National Rifle Association; treasurer of Roof Garden Riders Motorcycle Club; Somerset Township constable; past member of Listie Volunteer Fire Department; past member of the Berlin Fife and Drum Corp. Licensed gunsmith and employed by Davis Enterprises and also associated with J.M. Heiple Motorcycle Sales and Salvage Co.

Sources:

  1. Type: Census

     Title: 1930 Census

     Place: Somerset Co., Pennsylvania

     Date: 1930

     Text: 1930 census Berlin Twp family #340 "James M Heiple" son

  2. Type: Vital Record

     Title: U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records

     Date: 1938 - 1946

  3. Type: Vital Record

     Title: U.S. Social Security Death Index

  4. Type: Gedcom File

     Title: Christian Heiple Descendants

     Date: Aug 2005

  5. Type: Book

     Periodical: BRANT Genealogy of Somerset County, Pennsylvania

     Author: Rev. Alvin Alonzo (Brant) Cober, Ph. M., D. D.

     Publication: Berlin Publishing Co., Berlin, PA

     Date: 1932

  6. Type: E-Mail Message

     Author: Stacey Garstecki

     Title: Query on Irma Heiple

     Date: 26 Mar 2002

     Location: Ancestry.com Message Boards

  7. Type: Newspaper

     Title: Obituary of James Milton Heiple

     Periodical: The Republic

     Place: Soomerset Co., PA

     Date: 13 May 1982

  8. Type: Newspaper

     Title: Obituary of Vernon Snyder

     Periodical: Daily American

     Place: Somerset Co., PA

     Date: 3 Dec 1979

  9. Type: Newspaper

     Title: Obituary of Willard J. Snyder

     Periodical: Daily American

     Place: Somerset CO., PA

     Date: 26 Jul 1979

 10. Type: Newspaper

     Title: Obituary of Elizabeth Julia Berkheimer Heiple Wojnaroski

     Periodical: Daily American

     Place: Berlin, Somerset Co., PA

     Date: 27 Feb 1984

     Text: Elizabeth preceeded in death by son James M. Heiple

 11. Type: Book

     Author: Brian J. Ensley

     Periodical: Cemetery records of Cambria & Somerset Co., PA

     Publication: Closson Press

 12. Type: Newspaper

     Title: Obituary of Irma M. Snyder Heiple

     Periodical: The Daily American

     Place: Somerset, Pennsylvania

     Date: 17 Mar 2004

     Periodical: The Tribune-Chronicle

     Place: Johnstown, PA

     Date: 18 Mar 2004

 13. Type: Book

     Author: Brian J. Ensley

     Periodical: Cemetery records of Cambria & Somerset Co., PA

     Publication: Closson Press

     Text: page 139