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Wilma Bicking Mildred Heiden Jeannie Heiden Ralph Heiden
Helen Heiden Wm Frank Heiden Dianne Houpt Pat Klass
Helma Nickel Mary Lou Opfermann

Marie Tommelein 

Brick Tommelein 

Listed below are excerpts from transcriptions of audio tapes of two meetings with different combinations of the people shown here. They occurred on May 28 and September 25, 1995. For the entire script, Click Here.

  • Wilma, Jeannie, Wm, Helma and Marie were children of Wm Carl Heiden

  • Mildred was married to Arthur Heiden and was mother of Ralph Heiden

  • Helen was wife of Wm Frank and they were parents of Dianne

  • Pat was daughter of Wilma Bicking

  • Mary Lou is daughter of Leo and Lucille Heiden

  • Ralph, Dianne, Pat and Mary Lou were first cousins

 
Ralph Heiden - What effect did the Great Depression have on the Heiden family?

Norma "Jeanie" Heiden - It didn’t seem to impact us a lot at home on the farm.

Helma (Heiden) Nickel - When I started at River Raisin Paper Company in 1929 or 30, I got 18 cents an hour.

Wilma (Heiden) Bicking - I had to pay 25 cents a day for a ride to high school and some weeks it was awfully tough to come up with that $1.25.

Norma "Jeanie" Heiden - We didn’t have buses in those days. If you went to high school, you had to find a ride with someone.

Wilma (Heiden) Bicking - Viola Chambers used to give me a ride. Burkes across the river used to drive too.

Norma "Jeanie" Heiden - I had Bonnie Zorn take me to Dundee.

Mildred (Roggerman) Heiden - Art used to work for a dollar a day plus dinner during those times.

Helma (Heiden) Nickel - Roy Salow worked for us for $30 a month.

Wilma (Heiden) Bicking - And he probably didn’t have anything to spend it on either.
 

  1. Edna Berns
  2. Lavern Berns
  3. Walter Berns
  4. Wilma Bicking
  5. Myrna Bishop
  6. Donna Burge
  7. Janice Clark
  8. Bertha & Cecil Drake
  9. Mildred Eipperle
  10. Hilda Fuller
  11. Arthur Heiden
  12. August & Rika Heiden
  13. August Heiden Children
  14. Carl Heiden
  15. Emma Heiden
  16. Ernst Heiden
  17. Heinrich Heiden Children
  18. Helen E. Heiden
  19. Henry Wm Heiden
  20. Herman and Reka Heiden
  21. John Heiden
  22. Leo Heiden
  23. Lester Heiden
  1. Mary Heiden
  2. Norma "Jeanie" Heiden
  3. Wm Carl & Mary Heiden No 1
  4. Wm Carl & Mary Heiden No 2
  5. Wm Frank Heiden
  6. Dianne Houpt
  7. Lena Koster
  8. Laas/Burmeister
  9. Linda Miller
  10. Helma Nickel
  11. Mary Lou Opfermann
  12. Rambow Family
  13. The Rambows by Drake
  14. Grandma Rambow
  15. Minnie & Wm Rambow
  16. Carol Toburen
  17. Marie Tommelein
  1. Walter Berns Poem
  2. Bridge School
  3. Christmas Eve Party
  4. Dentist Visit
  5. Dixon Rd Lots
  6. The Depression
  7. John Eipperle Fun Times
  8. The Farm House
  9. Five Generations
  10. German Book
  11. Germany
  12. Grape Community
  13. August Heiden Documents
  14. Herman and Reka Heiden Article
  15. Higher Ed
  16. Home Farm
  17. Indian Burial Ground
  18. Leo Heiden Homes
  19. Letters from Germany
  1. Life on the Farm
  2. Lutheran Church
  3. Mary Heiden Cooking
  4. Mary Heiden Health
  5. Mecklenburg, Germany
  6. Middle Names
  7. Mildred Eipperle's Death
  8. Nephews
  9. Helma Nickel's Cooking
  10. Old Receipts
  11. Reunions
  12. School Days
  13. Sparrow Hunting
  14. Stormy Weather
  15. Wedding Shiveree
  16. Willows by the River
  17. The Woodlot
  18. Work on the Farm