Elmer John Heiden was born February 31, 1909 as the fifth child of Ernst "Ernest" and Anna (Knack) Heiden. He was born at the family home at 8925 South Custer Road.

He attended the one-room Fonia School which was located about a mile or so away at 11411 Trost Road through the 8th grade. Along with his brother, Walter, he was employed by Amendt Milling in Monroe, Michigan for 24 years before retiring in 1974. For much of his adult life, he lived with Walter's family at homes on Nieman and Alford Roads in Dundee Township

Elmer never married and had no children.

On December 24, 1981, he died at St Vincent Hospital in Toledo, Ohio at the age of 72. He is buried at the St Matthew Lutheran Church cemetery in Raisinville Township.
 
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