Everett M. Heath |
| Posted 2009-04-14 by Sharon |
| The Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ May 2, 2001, p. A16 Everett M. Heath of Moultonborough, N. H., and a longtime winter resident of Wickenburg, died March 26 at Lakes Region General Hospital in Laconia, N.H. He was 86. Mr. Heath was born in 1915 in New Hampshire. He graduated from Franklin High School and after studying diesel engineering became a partner in Franklin Grocery. He and his wife, Madeline, moved to Wimot Flat and began a grocery business in 1941. In 1945 the couple moved to Center Harbor and Mr. Heath purchased the I.G. Lunt store, which he operated for more than 55 years, under the E. Heath Inc. banner. Mr. Heath was master of the Chocorua Lodge 83 and received his 50-year pin in 1997. He was 32nd Degree Mason. He was Center Harbor town treasurer from 1946 to 1963 and served on the Center Harbor and Inter-Lakes school boards as well as the board of directors of the New Hampshire Music Festival. He was active in Republican Party affairs all his life. He was one of the founders of the New Hampshire Grocers Association and served as chairman in 1955-56. He was honored as Grocer of the Year in 1976. Mr. Heath retired from active business in 1978 but continued as chairman of the board of E.M. Heath Inc. In 1955 he and his wife began spending part of the winter in Arizona, and built a home in Wickenburg in 1964. In Wickenburg he served as a volunteer for Meals on Wheels and with a group mapping parts of rural Wickenburg. He and his wife returned every winter to Wickenburg. Mr. Heath was an active member of the Holiday Ramblers, an RV Club, and participated in events all around the country, especially in Maine, New Hampshire and Arizona. Survivors include his wife of 61 years, Madeline White Heath of Moultonborough; three sons, Robert Heath of Center Harbor, Roger Heath of Salisbury and Richard Heath of Moultonborough; three grandchildren; three sisters, Miriam Taylor and Barbara Richford, both of Franklin, and Mildred Cushing of Hopkinton and Florida; and a brother, Bernard Heath of Concord. Services have been held. |
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