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 Norma "Jeanie" Heiden - On Easter Sunday, he would eat six boiled eggs for
breakfast. That was his traditional meal.
Wilma (Heiden) Bicking - During Lent, we could never go to a dance or to the movies
back then.
Helma (Heiden) Nickel - You never got married during Lent either. There were a lot
of February weddings because you had to get married before or after
Lent.
Norma "Jeanie" Heiden - Unless it was a shotgun wedding!
Ralph Heiden - Did the preachers used to come over to the house often?
Helma (Heiden) Nickel - That one preacher we had liked to play horseshoes.
Bidlesbocker was his name. He was the one who baptized me.
 Norma "Jeanie" Heiden - Pastor Thomas used to come over after Ma had died. He would
sit there while we were playing cards and he’d say, “I thought you’d
have a Budweiser out by now.” So, we would go and get him one and
he’d have it with us.
Wilma (Heiden) Bicking - Every so often, you were expected to have the preacher over
for a meal because they didn’t get much pay.
Helma (Heiden) Nickel - If you dug potatoes or had vegetables, you would drop some
off at the parsonage to help them out too.
Helma (Heiden) Nickel - The parsonage was there on Ida-Maybee Road across from
Seibarth’s. We used to go there for Catechism lessons before we were
confirmed.
Mary Lou (Heiden) Opfermann - We had to sit in the living room and take the lessons. It
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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,
