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‘Gentle giant’ Heine left an impact on all of Hampshire

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Don Heine, lower left, is pictured with hs daughters Missy, top left, Chrissy and Jackie. Chrissy and Jackie Heine are former Daily Herald all-area girls basketball captains. Don Heine, a 1974 Hampshire graduate, passed away suddenly on Saturday. He was 56.

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Rarely over the past decade could you walk into the Hampshire High School gym for a girls basketball game and not see this strapping big man with a strapping big beard sitting right smack in the middle of the front row. In fact, over the past 40 years or so, that same man was every bit a part of Hampshire sports and the Hampshire community as anyone. Don Heine was one of those guys you didn’t miss. And now we’ll miss him tremendously.