Leo and Lucille (Smith) Heiden and their children Mary Lou (Heiden) Opfermann, David and Roger lived in this house.

I don't remember much before school but was told we lived several places because of the depression Dad worked for different farmers and didn't have steady work. When I was six we lived on the west side of Grandma and Grandpa's house on Dixon Road and lived there until William got married and needed the house because he worked the farm so we moved to S. Custer Road behind the grocery store.

The rooms were connected to the store with a door which was kept locked of course. I walked to Bridge School from there with Elizabeth Reber and Clyde Opfermann.

From there we moved to the Reber homestead on Dixon Road. We lived there until 1946 when my parents bought the house on 7758 S. Custer. Mother lived there until she died. I lived there until I married in 1949. After the depression Dad got a job at Consolidated Paper Company in Monroe and retired from there. It was a good place to work.

Leo Heiden Lucille (Smith) Heiden Mary Lou (Heiden) Opfermann David Roger

David Heiden, Sr. * * * * * & New York
Leo Heiden * * * *
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Roger Heiden, Sr. * * * *
Mary Lou (Heiden) Opfermann * * * * *
    * *  & Monroe, MI

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