 Lena Sophie (Heiden) Koster was born on
Friday, October 7, 1881 as the seventh child born to
August and Rika (Knaack) Heiden. She
was born in the family home at
8700 South
Custer Road and also
lived as a youth with her brother, Heinrich Heiden at
8420 Dixon Road.She married John Koster, Jr. in Maybee, Michigan on Thursday,
February 19, 1903 when she was 21 and he was 22 years old. John was
born on Friday, May 28, 1880 in Germany.
In their early married life, Lena and John lived at
2863 Radka Road in
Dundee Township according to the 1930 census.
John's mother, Dora Koster, who was 91 at the time lived with
them there along with the two younger sons, Harold and Marvin.
By the 1950 census, they were living with their grandson,
Gerald John Koster in Bedford Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
This is where John Koster, Jr. lived when he died on July 1,
1962 in Mercy Hospital in Toledo, Ohio. He was 82 years old.
At the time of her death on July18, 1973, Lena was living
with her youngest son, Marvin, on a farm at
11501 Dixon Road in
Dundee Township. She was buried next to her husband at
Maple
Grove Cemetery in Dundee. Lena was 91 years old.
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