Around 1940, Arthur and Mildred (Roggerman) Heiden lived "at the Butler farm." They had their children, Harold (1934-2023) and Joyce (1938-2025) with them and a son, Ronald (left), was born in 1942 in this house. It is located just to the east of where Dixon Road and South Custer merge. King School was nearby and across the road as shown on the map below.

A few years later, they went back to 134 Ida Maybee Road for a short time before moving on to a house at 9450 Dixon Road known as the C.J. Rath farm.

Ma and Dad moved to the "Butlers" in a place that had been a store at one time on the Butler's property. There was a picture of Harold and me when Ronnie was a baby in a buggy at that location so we must have moved there shortly after I was born.

The house where Ronnie was born had an upstairs as I remember standing by the stairs when dad told me I had a baby brother. I was 4 years and 3 months old at the time.

Ron says that his parents lived in a small house at the Butlers and then he was born in a bigger house on the same property. In February, 2026, he contacted a person he knows who had lived in the same house more recently and got the house number shown above.

When the Heidens lived at this location, South Custer Road aka M-50 would have been much closer to the front of the house. In the 1950s, the road was widened and moved farther away from the homes in that stretch just west of the City of Monroe.