2007
Louise Shoemaker Heid, 92, a former Falls Church resident and president of the Lake Barcroft Woman's Club, died Aug. 10 at
Asbury Methodist Village in Gaithersburg. She had adenocarcinoma, a form of cancer.
Mrs. Heid was a member of Arlington Forest United Methodist Church in Arlington County and the pilots' wives club of United
Airlines.
She was a volunteer with a National Symphony Orchestra fund-raising event called the Decorators' Show House.
Eddis Louise Shoemaker was a third-generation Washingtonian and graduated in 1931 from Western High School. She
attended George Washington University before graduating from the Washington School for Secretaries.
She spent a few years as a legal secretary for the Cromelin Laws law firm in Washington. After the United Stated entered World
War II, Mrs. Heid was briefly a legal secretary in the Justice Department's alien enemy control unit.
In 1991, she moved from Falls Church to Asbury Methodist Village.
Her husband, Francis P. Heid, whom she married in 1939, died in 1973.
Survivors include two sons, Paul M. Heid of Baltimore and Charles F. "Chuck" Heid of Warrenton; four grandchildren;
and five great-grandchildren.
-- Adam Bernstein