Bradley Steven "Steve" Hecker

Bradley Steven “Steve” Hecker was born November 22, 1960 in Kansas City, Missouri. The son of the late William Frank Hecker and Helen Pauline “Sue” Boillot Hecker. He left us October 15, 2025 at the young age of sixty-four years eleven months and fifteen days.

At the young age of fourteen, Steve knew he wanted to be his own boss. He opened a bait and fireworks stand on North 5 next to Farris’ Fruit Market. The retail license number he acquired for that small shop is the one still in use today. Although Steve only completed eleven years of school, he purchased Roam’s Dari Creem in 1979, what should have been his senior year of high school. He had been around the business for fifteen years and he owned it for the next fifteen until he sold it in 1994.

Steve met his wife-to-be in a snowball fight in Climax Springs, in 1978. After a couple of years of being turned down, but being determined, he won her over. They were married on Wednesday, July 29, 1981 after church service, because Roam’s was closed on Wednesdays and both returned to work the next day. The history after that was the work they did side by side.

In 1983, they had a great joy in having a baby boy, Brandon. Neither one of them had ever held a baby, let alone change one, but we did it, Babe.

In 1990, they purchased a convenience store on South 5 in Camdenton and also ran the concessions at the MTA Gun Club for nineteen years. They ran all businesses consecutively.

Then in 1991, the family of three became a family of four with the birth of their daughter, Megan. Steve and his family owe all the success to his devoted partnership with his wife, family, and community.

Steve is survived by his wife of forty-four years, Sandra (Crainshaw) Hecker, his son Brandon Hecker and wife Anealia, his daughter Megan Lane and husband, Jared, sister, Pam Thompson and husband Brian, his brother-in-law, Ron Crainshaw and wife, Michelle, as well as his mother-in-law that he loved as his own mother, Doris Crainshaw. He is also survived by his nieces and nephews, Trevor Crainshaw, Taylor Edwards and her husband Landon, Don McCurdy, Grant McCurdy and his wife, Soledad. He was also a proud Papa and Pops to his grandchildren, Jayce Sanders, Madelyn Hecker, and Wyatt Lane as well as a host of relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, brother-in-law Bruce McCurdy and father-in-law Darrell Crainshaw.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers to donate in Steve’s honor to Laughlin Cemetery and/or Climax Springs Cemetery.

Arrangements are under the direction of Allee-Holman-Howe Funeral Home, Camdenton, Missouri.