New deputy has roots in Goessel
By ROWENA PLETT
Staff reporter
Lonnie Hiebert joined the sheriff's department as a deputy about one month ago.
Hiebert is a native of Goessel and graduated from Goessel High School in 1989. His parents are Norman and Marcia Hiebert.
Hiebert was a star basketball player at Goessel and attended Washburn University on a basketball scholarship.
He became a starter on a team which made it to the MIAA tournament every year but one. When he was a junior, the team won the conference and made it to the final eight in the MIAA tournament.
Hiebert majored in criminal justice and minored in sociology, graduating in 1994.
He joined the Kansas City, Mo., police department, where he worked for seven years before coming to Marion County.
Business was Hiebert's first choice as a career, and while in college he had a job at the state insurance commissioner's office. He found he didn't like sitting at a desk all day.
Then he took a forensics class and became interested in law enforcement.
"I like dealing with people," he said. "You get to see a lot of things and help a lot of people."
He took a job in Marion County because he wanted to be close to his family and wanted to raise his daughter in a small community near home.
He and his wife, Kristy, have a two and one-half year old daughter, Brittney. They live on the Marion/McPherson County line near 170th and Meridian.
Hiebert's older brother Mike and wife Lucinda live at rural Goessel. A younger sister Deena and husband Joe Wuest live at Lehigh.
Hiebert said he is still getting adjusted to his new job, but he thinks he will enjoy it.
