Heidi Medd

Heidi Margarete (Montgomery) Medd, age 58, passed away Saturday, October 15th, 2022, at home on the farm she had grown to love with her daughters and mother at her side. At the exact time of her passing, her husband Scott was at the spot of their first date, walking to the Forsythe Covered Bridge. Heidi was born Wednesday, May 20th, 1964, at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. Heidi was the daughter of late Tech Sgt. Orville Montgomery and Margarete (Kohlmorgen) Kallio. From there, they moved to Franklin, Indiana and then to Phoenix, Arizona, and then to Greece. While they were stationed, Heidi was walking home from school and a baby donkey followed her home. That should have been the first clue that nothing she did would ever be normal. When Heidi’s dad retired from the Air Force, the family returned to Phoenix. Heidi moved to Rushville in late July or early August in 1978, the summer of her freshman year, and immediately turned Rushville and Rush County upside down becoming known as “Heidi Ho”. She thought she had stepped back in time when she came to Rushville but embraced everything that was Rush County. She became best friends with Beth Fry Miller and decided that she wanted to learn everything there was to know about farming, and so she did. Heidi Ho spent many a night at the Fry house getting up early in the morning to do chores with the rest of the family and aggravating Beth’s dad. Heidi tried out for cheerleading and made the squad. Everyone knew she liked to talk or if you didn’t know, you were soon to find out. Heidi’s friends were very important to her, and she was always telling Scott about Sharon, Judy, Denise, Linda, Carman and more. The most important thing she remembered was they all welcomed her. She moved back to Phoenix after graduation in 1982. The pull of the country life was too strong for her, and she came back home June 22, 1984, just in time for Beth’s wedding. She attended Ball State University but decided she would rather be a mother. She was the proud mother of Heather Eckel (fiancé Trevor Kelley) of Rushville, Hanny Sams of Indianapolis, Holly Sams (fiancé Cole Underwood) of St. Louis, Missouri and stepson Skyler Medd of Falmouth. Heidi adored her two beautiful grandsons, Ezra and Xander Kelley. Heidi loved her “adopted granddaughter” Kay’lani Tsareff, whom she spent years playing and bonding with. In 2008 after a little pushing from Bonnie Miller, Scott asked her out and as they say, the rest is history. They were married November 27th, 2010, a date that neither could ever remember and always had to be looked up whenever anyone asked when their anniversary was. It was a standing joke for anyone who knew them. It was true love because Scott managed (after several years) to get Heidi who hated riding anywhere in a vehicle to take a trip up the east coast and stay in Maine. After that she was hooked. They drove over 5,000 miles in 2020 going across the upper United Sates and down the west coast and over to Arizona and back home. Along with her children she is survived by her mother, stepdad Erkki, brother Eric, nephews Andre and Ryan, and nieces Katrina and Sonja of Phoenix, Arizona, as well as her sister Sabrina of Cave Creek, Arizona, and nieces Shelby Richardson, daughters Raelynn, Camille and Davina, and nephew Zachary Riebsomer, son Kayson of Connersville. She was preceded in death by her father and her brother Reimar Montgomery. She is also survived by close friend and troublemaker Lee Smith of Indianapolis. She had fond memories of girl scouts, drinking “foffis”, and pushing her over when she was bending over looking at something at the store, her roommate from college Karan Comstock who allowed us to stay with her when she had to see the Dr. in Chicago, and Marian West of Winston, Oregon who we only met 3 years ago, along with Dana Tanksley of California. She would spend hours talking on the phone. She truly valued all of your friendships. Please make donations to the Sheehan Cancer Center at Rush Memorial Hospital in Heidi’s name. We would like to thank the staff of Sheehan Cancer Center for their fantastic care while she was there. Heidi made it very clear that if we put her in the ground, she would haunt us the rest of our lives so we are taking no chances and she will be cremated per her wishes. We will be hosting a celebration of life at the Medd farm on May 20th, 2023 starting at 2 PM. It is Heidi’s birthday so we will celebrate it with great stories about her life with all her friends and families. It will be a day of celebration so please so come with Heidi stories to tell. There will be a headstone placed in the Orange Cemetery south of Glenwood on the county line so Heidi and Scott will be carved in stone for the world to see. She was placed in the care of Moster Mortuary and we the family are grateful for their care of her.

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Heidi Medd

May 20, 1964 - October 15, 2022