Alois Bube Heilig

Alois B. "Ollie" Heilig passed away on August 25, 2011, at the age of 103 years. He was born in Mount Joy, PA on August 20, 1908, the first child of the late Dr. William Richard Heilig and Pauline Antonia Bube. To earn his way through college he played saxophone and clarinet in orchestras on the road, lastly with the Tommy Christian Orchestra at the Trianon Ballroom in NYC and at Alexander Bay, NY, in the Thousand Islands area. He graduated from Franklin & Marshall College in 1931 earning a BS in economics cum laude. After college he became a CPA and worked on the staff of Lybrand, Ross Brothers & Montgomery in Philadelphia. In July of 1933 he married Anna Marguerite Wright of New Cumberland, PA, who was teaching Latin to four of his brothers and sisters at Mt. Joy High School. He is survived by two children, two grandchildren, and one great grandchild, and by his brother, James Bube Heilig, of Manheim, PA. In 1941 he joined the Campbell Soup Company in Camden, NJ as Assistant to the Controller. In 1946, at the age of 38, he was appointed Treasurer of the Campbell Soup Company, a position which he held for 25 years until his retirement in 1971. He and his wife retired to Boca Raton and later Delray Beach, FL, and for 30 years maintained a summer home in Stone Harbor, NJ. He loved to travel and he and his wife spent their retirement years traveling extensively through Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, Asia, and the Caribbean. He played golf into his early 90s. His wife died in 2002. In 2003 he moved to the Lima Estates Retirement Community in Media, PA to be closer to his children during his final years. Relatives and friends are respectfully invited to attend his graveside service at the Mount Joy Cemetery, Terrace Road, Mount Joy, PA on Wednesday, August 31, 2011 at 12:00 Noon with Rev. Michael Martine officiating.