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Ralph Heiden - We were talking earlier about the Laas'
and Mary Lou has a picture of some of them. Mary and William
Heiden,
Aunt
Libbie Laas,
Aunt Emma Laas formerly Ullrich?
 Mary Lou (Heiden) Opfermann - Who are they? I don’t understand what relation they are
to us.
Norma "Jeanie" Heiden - They’re Pa’s cousins. That’s where
Alice (Laas) Berlin
(left) comes in.
Wilma (Heiden) Bicking - We always called them “Aunt
and Uncle.”
Uncle
Will.
Laas was
from Texas. He was the “rich” one in the family. Who were the
Paulsens?
 Helma (Heiden) Nickel
- They were relations to
Aunt Emma.
Laas, I think. They were
some of the leaders when it came to starting the annual Heiden
reunion.
Mildred (Roggerman) Heiden -
Lucille [Lehmkuhl] was a
Burmeister wasn’t she?
Helma (Heiden) Nickel - Louie and
Aunt Rikie Burmeister,
she was a
Laas too. Lucille
had a sister, Mildred, who died of infantile paralysis. No, Lucille
was the one on crutches.
Wilma (Heiden) Bicking - Her sister, Florence Burmeister, was the Paulsen. She
married a Paulsen. They used to come out from Toledo and they were
the ones who made the lemonade at the reunion.
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Pictured
is what was called a cassette tape back in pre-digital
times.
Actually, the members of the Laas' family were related to August Heiden's wife, Rika as shown on the following chart:
Over
the years, we have also received written memories and
remembrances about this person or topic from various family
members. 
Wilma, Jeanie, Wm Frank, Helma & Marie were
children of 
