Florence parry heide biography

Hometown: Kenosha, WI
You Know Her From: Children’s books such as The Shrinking of Treehorn, Some Things Are Scary, That’s What Friends Are For

Florence Parry Heide was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on February 27, 1919. Her father was David W. Parry, a banker, and her mother was Florence Fisher, a columnist and actress.

During her childhood years, Florence was educated at the Ellis School in Pittsburgh. She then studied at Wilson College in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, and after two years she transferred to University of California at Los Angeles, where she eventually graduated in 1939. At the UCLA, she earned her B.A. in English.

Florence worked in advertising and public relations in New York City before she returned to her hometown during World War II.

She met Captain Donald C. Heide in October, 1943. He would later become her husband when they were married six weeks later, on November 27, 1943.

Following the war’s end, Florence and her husband moved to Kenosha. He began a private law practice, and worked until his retirement in 1982. Florence, on the ot

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