Doris Fredericka Heying

DORIS PITZINGER HEYING

MOUNTAIN SPRINGS — Services for Doris Pitzinger Heying, 81, of Mountain Springs, is set for 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Gainesville with Rev. Cecil James officiating. Burial will follow in Tyson Cemetery in south Cooke County under the direction of the Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home of Gainesville.

Mrs. Heying died Feb. 19, 2008, at Renaissance Care Center, after a long illness with Alzheimer’s disease.

She was born Dec. 1, 1927, in Dallas to Joseph and Mable Bauer Pitzinger. On April 9, 1955, she married Robert J. Heying in St. Matthews Cathedral in Dallas. Doris graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas, attended Southern Methodist University, and became the first female graduate of the Texas Technological School of Civil Engineering. She worked for her father’s architectural firm before her marriage.

An avid outdoor adventurer, she met her husband, a National Park Ranger, on a camping trip to Big Bend National Park.

Following their marriage, they lived at Saguaro National Monument in Tucson, Arizona, and retired from Carlsbad Cavern National Park. They have resided in Cooke County since 1975.

Mrs. Heying served as a Girl Scout Leader in Carlsbad, N.M., Dallas and Pilot Point. Until recent years, she was active in the Cooke County Republican Club and was voting judge of Precinct 2 for many years. A community activist, she and her husband did the groundwork preparation for the Lake Ray Roberts Planning and Zoning Commission. She was a regular participant in the early Mountain Springs Summer Music Shows.

Neighbors remember her as an animal lover caring for abandoned animals.

She is survived by her husband, Bob; daughter, Elizabeth Mosier and her husband, Richard of Mountain Springs; son, the Rev. Christopher Heying and his wife, Cindy of Forrest, Virginia; three grandchildren, Mary Grace, John Luke and Patrick Heying of Forrest, Virginia; sister-in-law, Nadine Pitzinger of Mountain Springs and numerous cousins in Ontario and British Columbia Provinces in Canada, London, England and Washington State; and dear friend, LaDonna Childers of West Virginia.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Joe Pitzinger Jr.; Canadian and Austrian Grandparents; by a niece, Kristin Pitzinger; and great-nephew, Will Pitzinger.

Pallbearers are Joe and George Pitzinger, Paul Cookson, Phil Leonard, Richard Mosier, Bobby Fuller and Justin Childers.

Memorials may be made to the Salvation Army.