At the times that Art and Mildred Heiden lived here, the address would have been Ida Maybee Road. In the 1950s a "shortcut" connection was made to avoid the right hand turn on Dixon Road. This property is now known as 134 Rath Farm Road. See map below.

This house at the corner of Ida Maybee Road and Dixon Road was the home of Art and Mildred (Roggerman) Heiden and their son Harold in the late 1930s. Their daughter, Joyce Wittman was born here in 1938. They shared the house with George and Lydia Rath who owned the farm.

Around 1940, the family moved to the east end of Dixon Road to a house on South Custer Road where their second son, Ronald was born in 1942. According to Joyce, the family moved back to this house for a short period in 1943 or 44 before moving to the C.J. Rath farm at 9450 Dixon Road about a mile away to the west.

In the 1930 U.S. Census, Art's cousin, Henry Wm "Heinie" Heiden (right) was listed as a lodger with the George Rath family at this address.

When I was growing up in the 1950s, this was the home of George (right) and Lydia Rath. My dad, Art Heiden, would stop by and visit with them and I would be along sometimes. All the time I knew them, Lydia was confined to a wheel chair.

Later, their son, Ted Rath, lived here and his stepson, Ken Kehrer (1948-2021) (left) was a close friend of mine through high school. Ken's grandfather, Norman Kehrer's second wife was my father's cousin, Esther Heiden and they had no children. So Ken was not a relative...just a good friend.