12 April, 1943 – 28 August, 2025
On August 28, 2025 Garry Heiman passed away unexpectedly while vacationing in Kenora, Ontario.
Garry was born in Swan River, Manitoba, the eldest of 7 children born to Herbert and Martha Heiman. His elementary school years were spent in that community and as a teenager he often worked alongside his father in the family drycleaning business.
Growing up in the Swan River Valley developed Garry’s lifelong affinity for water sports. He was among a cohort of young people who spent weekends waterskiing at Wellman Lake and sailing a homemade boat he fashioned when he was in Grade 11 from plans out of a Popular Mechanics magazine.
He attended high school at LCBI, a bible school in Outlook, Saskatchewan which informed his decision to enroll in theology at the University of Saskatchewan in Regina. That proved not to be the best fit for Garry’s mathematical and physics formidable mindset; he switched to engineering, graduation as a civil engineer in 196
