Adelheid Clayton

Clayton, Adelheid (Heidi)

Feb. 7, 1941 Germany - Feb. 28, 2019 Colorado

"You catch more bees with honey than you do with vinegar." - Heidi

"You may not be able to change the world, but you can damn sure give it a hotfoot every now and then." - Heidi

Depending on who you were at the time, you may know Heidi by the honey or by the hotfoot. As an immigrant, she saw value in everybody, and may have been proudest of being blue collar and a woman making it in a man's world. She appreciated the people who make the trains run on time, and to them she doled out the honey, but if you were a mile wide and an inch deep and thought a title made you important, you eventually got the hotfoot. She loved letting the "little" person know how great she thought they were, because she was one and she was pretty awesome too, but she also enjoyed popping ego balloons of people who got too full of themselves. She delighted in telling stories of either experience.

Heidi's faith was simple. She needed God to live her life, she had to experience that Goodness just to get by, and she appreciated the help she got along the way. She attracted grace, and passed grace along. If you're reading this you were a conduit of that grace flowing to her. You were the meaning in her life. Thank you.

Her passing is not a sad thing, though it may make us sad. Heidi's story is a triumphant story, written in the simple things of life that matter the most.

She leaves behind all of us, and was preceded into what's next by a bunch of us.

We will update this obit, but we want your input. One perspective of another's life is far too narrow a slice. So any wishes or stories, we'd love to hear them! Heidi's granddaughter is collecting them, you can email to honoringheidi@gmail.com, or put them on her Facebook, as some already are. We'll do our best to create something neat that you can access right here. We thank you!

At this time we want to thank everybody at Mapleton Care Center, which truly is a special place. It's not a profit machine, it's more like a love machine. Caring for Heidi's body is HARD work (just ask Heidi), and you all did so much more than that. Like Heidi, we stand amazed that life could be so good as to bless our family with the people of Mapleton. We could not recommend a better place if the need comes.

And the Cremation Society of Colorado has been terrific, thank you Hailey!

Many more thanks to come when we update.