Ida Public Schools takes in all of Ida Township and a large
portion of Raisinville Township in Monroe County, Michigan.
It serves about 1,500 students. Over the decades since the
consolidation of school districts in the late 1940s, several
of the Heiden family have attended IHS.
From
what I can find, Ida High School existed at least as early
as 1920. Although many Heiden children lived fairly close to
Ida, they would have had to provide their own transportation
every day and, in some cases, pay a fee. As a result, for
instance, of the 13 children of William and Mary Heiden,
only the youngest two daughters, Wilma (Heiden) Bicking and
Norma Heiden attended high school in Dundee. All the rest of
the kids ended their schooling when they completed 8th
grade. I know my father, Arthur Heiden, always said he would
have loved to go to high school but it just wasn't in the
cards at that time.
Also, the mailing address for
IHS is 3145 Prairie Street. According to census data, in
1950, Emma and
August John Heiden, the widow and son
respectively of Heinrich Heiden lived at 2847 Prairie,
Emma's daughter Dorothy (Heiden) Strzesinski lived at 2895
and another daughter, Esther (Heiden) Kehrer lived at
7810 Prairie. From the aerial picture of modern day Ida, it would
appear that the houses of Dorothy and Esther may have been
incorporated into the grounds of new school buildings later...but
I don't know for sure.
