Service for journalist scheduled for Jan. 10

A memorial service for journalist John Heckathorn will be held Jan. 10 at Diamond Head Mortuary. Visitation will begin at 5 p.m., and services will be at 6 p.m.

Heckathorn, a writer, magazine editor and college journalism instructor, died Wednesday at Straub Clinic & Hospital after suffering a heart attack Christmas morning. He was 65.

Heckathorn had separate stints as editor for sister publications Hawaii magazine and Honolulu magazine, where he wrote a popular food column. In the fall he joined the journalism faculty at Hawaii Pacific University.

John Gene Heckathorn was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., in 1946, and raised in the Northern California town of Orinda. He arrived in Hawaii in 1976 as an assistant professor in the University of Hawaii English Department.

Heckathorn is survived by wife Barbara; daughters Jennifer DeGuzman, Paige and Mallory; and brothers Peter and Alex.