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MEMORIALS
Memorials honor the lives of deceased members of the local Bar. For more information, contact Lisa Quintanilla at (513) 699-1391 or lquintanilla@cincybar.org.
Kenneth Heuck Jr.
1944–2024
Kenneth Heuck Jr. was born June 13, 1944 and passed away
on January 20, 2024, peacefully surrounded by family.
He was born in Cincinnati and was a fourth-generation
Cincinnatian. He graduated from Walnut Hills High School and
went on to the University of Cincinnati where he was elected
President of the Senior Class. He was also a member of the Delta
Tau Delta fraternity as well as the honorary fraternity, Sigma
Sigma.
After graduating from the University of Cincinnati, he attended the University of
Cincinnati College of Law. While in law school, he was exposed to the plight of the
less fortunate that sensitized him. His experiences became the main driving force of
his 53-year legal career where his primary focus of practice was to help those who were
disadvantaged due to economic or other unfortunate circumstances and faced with legal
obstacles and challenges that he could remedy through the levers of law.
He began his professional career working for the law firm of Hill, Tucker & Marsh
in Richmond, Virginia exclusively in the area of black civil rights. He later served with
Volunteers in Service to America (Vista) organization in the riot-torn Huff area of Akron.
He later joined the law firm of Nippert and Nippert, was a founder of the law firm, Heuck
and Ganson, and then struck out on his own as a sole practitioner until his passing.
Although a lawyer by profession, he also had a keen interest in medicine, combining
that interest with his desire to help those fellow citizens injured due to the fault of others
seek redress and find justice in the legal system, dedicating his career to helping those
suffering personal injuries – for injured workers, victims of accidents, and medical
negligence.
Civic contributions also spanned his career. He served numerous terms on the Board
of the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. In addition, he served as Village Solicitor
for Mariemont for several years, where he lived nearly his entire life.
He was a competitive swimmer, winning numerous medals in freestyle, backstroke,
and breaststroke in U.S. Masters meets both nationally and internationally. Addition-
ally, Ken was an avid outdoors lover. He enjoyed sailing and crewed with his father on
several Port Huron to Mackinac races on Lake Huron. He was a lifelong summer resi-
dent of the Les Cheneaux Islands in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. For many years, Ken
amazed residents of those 35 islands by making the 7-mile swim from Hessel to Cedar-
ville, faithfully attended to by his daughters Abby Lindell, of Terrace Park, and Kelly
Ward, of Indian Hill, in a following boat.
Ken interests were eclectic. He was a student of geology, fond of travelling to White-
fish Point on Lake Superior’s shores to search for agates, and, whether in Mariemont or
at the family farm near Serpent Mount, no one who could match his uncanny knack for
finding arrowheads. He was both a Germanophile and a family historian. He was a life-
long member of Hyde Park Community United Methodist Church.
Above all, Ken’s primary interest was his family. He was married for 53 wonderful
years to his wife Scotty, a fantastic father to his daughters, and a devoted grandfather
to his six grandchildren. And he did not only share himself with his immediate family.
He was also a great friend and mentor to his many younger extended family members,
including his nephew Jon, who has special needs.
Ken was a gentle, friendly soul, who successfully carried the mantle of family lead-
ership in Cincinnati since his father passed away 31 years ago. Aside from his wife and
two daughters, he is survived by sons-in-law Pax Lindell and Charles Ward; grandchil-
dren Frances, Jeb, and Barrett Lindell and Macreedy, Shepard, and Charley Ward; siblings
Nancy Johanson, of Clifton, Susan Allen, of Providence, RI, Robert Heuck II, of Xenia,
and Douglas Heuck, of Pittsburgh; and 15 nieces and nephews.
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