Heidi Marie Neumann, age 38, daughter and stepdaughter of Fred C. and Anne Neumann of Jonesboro, Arkansas. Passed from this life on Thursday, August 24, 2006 in Hayesville, North Carolina. Heidi was born in Mobile, Alabama on March 14, 1968. She was a retired neurosurgical assistant, a published poet and a mother of two children, Meaghan and Mitchell and a grandmother of one child, Alyson. A Memorial Service will be held at 11:00 a.m., Friday, September 15, 2006 in the Preston Cemetery, Preston, Iowa. Reverend Gregory Geier of St. John’s the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Preston will officiate. Memorials may be given to the Holy Angels Convent, P.O. Drawer 130, Jonesboro, Arkansas, 72403. “Rest eternal, grant to her and let light perpetual shine upon her”.