JoAnn Lucille (Heiden) Kimlin was born to Henry Wm and Dorothy (Spohr) Heiden on November 26, 1937 near Britton, Michigan.

The family lived on County Line Road on the western boundary of Monroe County across from Lenawee County. JoAnn was a 1955 graduate of Dundee High School in Dundee, Michigan.

On June 6, 1959, she married Ken Wayne Kimlin in St John Lutheran Church in Dundee. They had four children.

JoAnn died on February 3, 2015 in St Joseph Mercy Hospital,  Ypsilanti, Michigan. She was 77 years of age.

JoAnn was very helpful in pulling together information on her grandfather, Heinrich Heiden's family. Her comments are found at the bottom of the pages of her parents, aunts and uncles. Click Here for a total listing of JoAnn's remembrances. Thank you, JoAnn!