Edwin Augustus HEINEKEN

                       Melvin lived in Lennox, California in 1937. He said that he worked at Sandia Basis in research and development. He was later chief electrical inspector on the Mark 7 bomb for Pantex, near Amarillo, Texas and was sent as the observer on the tests in Nevada. He was transferred to Las Alamos working on a special project. He left that job for Eberline Instruments as production superintendent on nuclear test equipment. After he quit Eberline, he went to work for RCA as field engineer. He worked with the Phoenix Air Defense Center, as a standardization engineer on heavy radar for the Air Force. He was at Luke Air Force Base. Later he worked for JPL in Pasadena, California with the Lunar Lander Program. He was transferred to Alamagordo, New Mexico as assistant manager on the radio radar 2C program. His wife, Irene, suffered with M.S. and had special care from 1959 until her death.

    Lillian is the daughter of John Houston Garner Fand Milly Ann McCormick. She was married first to Mr. Henderson. They had three daughters. The daughters were all married before her second marriage. She had surgery in the summer of 1992 and a pacemaker in 1993. He lived at Edgewood and Albuquerque, New Mexico after his retirement. In April 1992 he flew to Tulsa, Oklahoma. His daughter, Betty Lou picked him up and they went to visit, his sister, Esther for a few days. He enjoys working in his shop. He has had catarac surgery on both eyes and radiation treatment for atomic burns received when he was an observer for the tests in Nevada.
                  

                       Esther and Barton went to California in 1926 with Barton's parents. They lived in Los Angeles and Alhambra. She worked at the Cudahy meat packing plant. They were still there in 1928. When the parents moved back to the middle west, they moved back also. She has always been a very friendly, social person, with many friends. She is small in height. Esther loves birds, especially red birds. She has quite a collection of them on plates, pictures, etc. She enjoys gardening, sewing and fishing. She has always canned her own fruits, vegetables and fish. She and Barton made a few trips to California by car. She lived in Kansas, California and Oklahoma, living at Grove, Oklahoma in later years with her first husband. Her father, Ed, lived with her there four years, until he died. She visited family in Kansas in Nov. 1974. We visited Esther at Grove, Oklahoma in 1981.

    After she married Willard she lived in Anderson, Missouri, Rt. 2. We visited them there in August 1994. Willard was a widower and married first to Hazel. He lived on a farm and raised cattle. He owned a small country church and parsonage near the home and there was Bible study on Thursday nights. They expanded the house and remodeled it. They always had a nice garden and loved to share with friends and neighbors. In 1998, Willard fell and broke his shoulder and they needed to be in a care facility at Anderson, Missouri.