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.
One
of my memories of this house comes from the fact that I used
to trap muskrats on the banks of the River Raisin. Roger Heiden was one of the people who would buy the pelts. My
dad, 
