Ida Public Schools takes in
students from 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 Ida High School.
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 Carl and Mary Heiden,
only the youngest two daughters,
Wilma (Heiden) Bicking and
Norma "Jeanie" Heiden
attended high school in Dundee. All the rest of the kids
ended their schooling when they completed 8th grade.
When school consolidation took place in the late 1940s, most
of the Heiden Family children ended up in the
Dundee school
district.
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
Street.
Emma's daughter
Dorothy (Heiden) Strzesinski lived at
2895 Prairie
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.
