Larry Heublein
Larry Heublein, born May 10, 1949 at Pratt, Kansas was the only son of
Harold and Grace Heublein. Larry grew up in the Isabel area, living in the
town of Isabel till age 9, and then moving with his parents to their farm
three miles east of Isabel.
Larry's father, Harold, farmed and worked in the oil field in the Barber
County area. Harold now resides in Wichita, Kansas.
Mrs. E.B. (Grace) Estes, Larry's mother, remarried in 1972 and now
resides in rural Macksville, Kansas. Grace worked at Bell's Market, Swinson's
Drug Store, and at the local telephone office in Isabel durintg the 1950's
and 1960's. She also worked as school secretary at the Isabel Schools, until
she moved to Pratt, Kansas in 1968.
In 1969, Larry married Diane Keimig of Nashville, Kansas, daughter of
Dale and Helen Jean Deimig. Dale and Helen Jean ran the Figge-Bennett General
Store in the Nashville community. In addition, Dale was the rural mail carrier
for the Isabel-Nashville areas until his death in 1984.
Diane and Larry lived in the Isabel community the first summer of their
marriage until Fall when they returned to college at Hays, Kansas. Larry
taught high school for one year after graduating from college at Fort Hays
Kansas State College. He then worked as a District Sales Manager for Montgomery
Ward for eleven years. Since 1983, he has been a Sales Representative for an
industrial gas firm.
Diane completed college at Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas
in 1975. Since graduation, Diane has been involved in the dental profession
as a Dental Assistant Instructor, and as a Dental Assistant.
Diane, Larry and their son Brian, who is a senior in high school presently
resied in Blue Springs, Missouri.
Source: Isabel, Kansas - The First 100 Years, 1887 - 1987, pg. 94
Submitted by: Larry and Diane Heublein