Henry K. (Bud) Hebeler was a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) from which he obtained three degrees and numerous awards including the prestigious “Most Outstanding Student.” He took courses from Nobel Prize winners in economics. Most of his working career was at The Boeing Company where he began as an engineer, worked his way through financial analysis, procurement, sales, corporate long range planning, and ultimately became president of three Boeing divisions including the Boeing Aerospace Company in Seattle, WA. For six years he was Boeing’s chief forecaster and planner reporting to the chairman. He was a winner of a Sperry Fellowship, Sloan Fellowship and a fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and received an award from President Regan for Boeing’s participation in the space program.
His felt his most important contributions to Boeing were (1) heading the Minuteman Ballistic Missile systems engineering during the height of the Cold War, (2) the initiation and sale of the Short Range Attack Missile program as what may have been the first stealth vehicle and was the primary weapon for the B52 bomber and (3) leading the Boeing Aerospace Company from a previous loss position to the most profitable part of the corporation in the mid1980s.
He held two patents: one for an analog aeroelastic computer and the other for a lithium cooled hypersonic reentry vehicle.
He was on advisory committees to the U.S. Congress, Departments of Interior, Commerce, Energy, and Defense, an economic advisor to the Washington State governor and a member of Washington's Economic Development Council. He has served on the Board of Governors of MIT's Sloan School and boards of University of Washington and the Defense Systems Management College.
Mr. Hebeler worked with retirees for many years, developed special material for their use, and gave numerous seminars on retirement. After retiring he taught himself to use MS Excel and wrote three books on retirement planning, two published at the request of John Wiley and Sons. His Web site, www.analyzenow.com, was highly recommended by numerous financial publications and viewed by over a million people annually. Consumer Reports recommended his Free Retirement Planner above Fidelity’s and Vanguard’s. He emphasized conservative planning and a frugal lifestyle.
He wrote several hundred articles for The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch.com and for their Encore’s Expert panels. A number of major publications have published articles lauding his help for retirement planning. He has given major presentations to the American Association of Independent Investors (AAII), the National Association of Professional Financial Analysts (NAPFA), medical conventions, and church and other groups.
He was the fortieth person to join Meridian Valley Country Club and was its first membership chairman. Though a high handicap player, he loved the game and eventually bought a home on the golf course.
He personally designed two homes, one in Bellevue, WA and one in Meridian Valley, Kent, WA. Both were finished on time and within the original budget. He helped neighbors with remodeling designs as well.
He served a term as president of his community’s home owner association where he instituted a formal plan to maintain appropriate reserves and, working with the County, led an effort to correct flooding in the area as well as to bring that part of the County into the city of Kent.
He loved skiing even though having broken both arms and suffered severe damage to his knees. When still employed, he owned a skiing condo in Crystal Mountain, WA. After retiring he and his wife bought a condo in Park City, UT, where he skied for three months a year for over three decades. He enjoyed teaching their thirteen grandchildren how to ski and gave them all a week’s skiing vacation in Park City as a Christmas present for many years.
He was active in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was a past group leader of the High Priest Quorum. More recently he was actively involved in getting members prepared for emergencies and helping Boy Scouts.
He is survived by his wife, Mirriam Hebeler, his own two children Linda Underhill and Laura Hebeler and his step daughters Robin Chaffin and Tari Jensen as well as thirteen grandchildren.
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