Marie (Heiden) and Morris "Brick" Tommelein's first child was a son, William Charles Tommelein, born on Friday, April 12, 1946 in St. Joseph's Hospital in Ann Arbor.

He graduated from Milan High School in 1964 and Ferris State University in 1972.

Bill married Patricia Marie Manning on May 19, 1967 at Immaculate Conception Church in Milan, Michigan. They had one daughter and were divorced in 1979.

On June 23, 1979, Bill married Dianna Elsie Bilderbeck at the Church of Christ in Milan. They had one child and lived in Saline, Michigan.

Bill worked as a policeman in Ann Arbor, Milan and Washtenaw County and as the Farm Manager at the Texas Longhorn Cattle Ranch (Kassel Ost Farm) in Saline.

Dianna who was born on Saturday, March 17, 1956 in Detroit, is a 1974 graduate of Chadsey High School. She works assisting with the farm business and is very active with St. John's Lutheran Church in Bridgewater.

On May 14, 2011, Bill passed away at the age of65 in Ann Arbor and is buried at St John's Lutheran Church cemetery in Bridgewater, Michigan.