Marvin Gabel Hein

Marvin Gabel Hein was born in Billings on March 17, 1926, the sixth of eight children of Mary (Gabel) and Alexander Hein. He graduated from Billings High School, where he played football and baseball. In 1944 he enlisted in the Navy Air Corps V-5 program at the University of Washington, where he lettered in football. When WWII ended, he followed his football All-America brother, Herb Hein, to the University of Minnesota, where Marv played end and lettered for three seasons until graduating with a degree in economics. He was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity.

He married Peggy Gillette Erickson in 1950 and moved to Des Moines, where he was a sales representative for industrial coatings companies. He and Peg moved to Lakeway, Texas, in 1983, where they started Hein and Associates, a wholesale gift and publishing company. After selling the company in 1990 he was an active volunteer in the Lakeway community, serving on the Zoning and Planning Commission, as chairman of the Fourth of July parade, and as president of Lakepac. He and Peg worked on the bond election to purchase what is now Lakeway City Park, and founded Friends of the Parks. Over the next 15 years Marv logged thousands of hours chopping, mulching, hauling, planting, watering and grooming City Park.

He and Peg also started Trees for Lakeway, raised the funds and found the volunteers to plant more than 350 trees and shrubs on the median of Lakeway Boulevard. They were honored as Volunteers of the Year by the City of Lakeway and awarded the Texas Community Forestry award for Outstanding Citizens of the Year and the Lakeway Civic Corporation Meritorious Service Award. He was a member of St. Luke's on the Lake Episcopal Church and served eight years as chairman of the ushers for the early service. His favorite pastimes included fly-fishing, playing tennis, and cheering for the Texas Rangers. Peg and Marv moved to Longhorn Village in 2011.

Marv is survived by Peg, his wife of 62 years; their daughter Kathryn Hein Lewis, of Palo Alto, Calif.; two grandchildren, Laura Cramer Worrel of New York City and Nicholas Cramer Lewis of San Francisco; and a great-granddaughter, Eva Worrel.

Survivors also include a sister, Phyllis Hook, of Austin; two brothers, Russell and Gary Hein, both of Billings; and numerous nieces and nephews.

A memorial service will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 11th at St. Luke's on the Lake in Austin with a reception afterward at the Forty Acre Room at Longhorn Village. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial contributions to the Lakeway Friends of the Parks.