A memorial service to celebrate the life of Maynard Heckel, who passed away April 8, will be held Saturday, May 12 at 2 p.m. at the Community Church in Durham.

Maynard held faculty and administrative positions at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University before coming to the University of New Hampshire, from which he retired as director of Cooperative Extension in 1983. He also served as the first dean of the University System of New Hampshire's School of Lifelong Learning (now Granite State College) from 1972 to 1977.

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