Glenn D. Heiden, 74, of Monroe, passed away at 7:53 p.m. Friday, May 23, 2014 at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center, Toledo.

Friends may call from 2 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Rupp Funeral Home, where services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Katherine Kolodziejczyk, pastor of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, will officiate and military honors will be provided by Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1138, Monroe.

Glenn was the son of Edwin and Lela (Veitz) Heiden. He was born December 27, 1939, at the family home on South Custer Road in Dundee. He married Kay F. Pierce January 12, 1963 at St. John Lutheran Church, Dundee.

He served his country in the U.S. Air Force from1958 to 1962 and spent three of those years serving at the Hahn Airbase in Germany and had obtained the rank of Airman First Class.

Glenn was employed at the Ford Plant in Ypsilanti from 1963 to 1967. In 1967 he began working at the Monroe Post Office first as a clerk and then as a mail carrier. He retired in 1995.

He was a 1958 graduate of Dundee High School. He had volunteered at Mercy Memorial Hospital and also the MDA Telethon.

He was a member of the American Legion and Good Shepherd Lutheran Church and had served as past president and treasurer of the church board. He enjoyed golfing and had scored a hole in one in 1995. Glenn loved sports and in his youth had played and coached softball. He and his wife had enjoyed spending the last four winters in Florida.