Welcome to the Frank Otto Heydinger Photo Album

The earliest known photograph of Frank Heydinger was taken in 1916 at the very first Heydinger family reunion, taken in the summer of his second year. Frank was the last person to pass who had attended that reunion and who was included in that photo of the first Heydinger Reunion in 1916.

This is the next oldest picture that we have of him, along with four of his siblings. From left to right are Lucille (Sr. Bernardine), Frank, Clement (Nick) Helen and Rita.

 

Frank hard at work in his barber shop in about 1945 on Main Street Norwalk. Notice that his shop was a three-chair shop, as in those days it was common for men to have weekly haircuts and sometimes daily shaves yet. Shops were usually busy and required two or three men to service the clientele. Only twice during his near half century of barbering here did others barber in the remaining two chairs. Once was in the early 50's where a cousin of Frank, Leonard Alt from New Washington, was apprenticing under him, and then again in the early 70's when another barber thought there would be enough business for two in one shop. There wasn't. He left. There is no word as to who the gentleman was under the towel preparing to be shaved.

 

This picture was taken when Frank was approximately 30 years of age. His mustachioed lip indictes it was taken after his daughter Betty was born. He had told Alice, after two straight boys, that if the third was a girl, he would be forced to wear a mustach. The rest is history, as Betty would say!

Frank about 40 years later in the same barber shop, his prized license displayed in the background.

 
 

This photo was taken on the occasion of the 35th wedding anniversary of Frank and Alice, in June of 1975.

This picture shows Frank with five of his children in June of 1999. Posing in front of the house of son Mike on the occasion of the wedding of Mike's youngest son, Charles, are (L. to R.) Mary Werner, Dick, Frank, Betty Meese, Mike, and Andy. Notice that all sons carry the gene for Heydinger high forehead and pot belly except one, whose parentage was very much questioned that day!

 

Frank was an unusually proud father as he shows off his first born son in 1942.

In the spring of 1947, child number four, Lauren Joseph, arrived. Though the children were still on the small size, the family needed a larger home than this one at 134 East Main Street in Norwalk. Hence the move the following spring. Here on the back stoop sit the four oldest children of Frank and Alice, (L. to R.) Dick, Mike holding Shoeless Joe, and Betty.

 

The Frank O Heydinger brood in 1952 when youngster number six was about a year old

In the summer of 1969, the Frank Heydinger children held a reunion of sorts when Dick returned to Ohio for a visit from Colorado. It was the first time that all of Frank and Alice's grandchildren up to that time had all been together. They are seen sitting on the back stoop of grandpa Frank's house, and are (L. to R.) BIlly Meese,Matthew Heydinger, Jennifer Heydinger, Scott Heydinger, and Paula Meese.

 

HELP!!! We need your HELP!!!

Posted by Mike Heydinger on October 15, 2009      

This is YOUR FAMILY WEBSITE. It will be successful only if YOU contribute. You do NOT have to be computer savy to help out. Contact us, and we'll git'er done!

We need Current Contact Information.

In order to keep all folks fully informed, we need CURRENT CONTACT INFORMATION: street addresses, telephone numbers, and email addresses.

Contact your siblings, your children away from home, your folks - anyone in the relation - to email us their current contact information. Send it to me at Mike_Heydinger@HuronHS.com.

If you are more comfortable with snail-mail, send any information to me at Mike Heydinger Box 112 Huron, OH 44839.

We need Family History Data.

Also, we would like to do a full page here of information on each branch of the original John Heydinger family. We will post histories of each branch, pictures as far back as we can get them, and any other interesting data about the branches - whatever YOU think ought to be up on the site. We ask you to send us digital files if possible. If you are not computer savy and still wish to make a contribution of materials to this site, please email us and we can arrange to either come to you or have materials shipped to us for scanning and then return to you.

PLEASE - on all pictures, identify each person with a recognizable face. If known, indicate the year and place the picture was taken. Protect your valuable pictures and documents with cardboard stiffeners!

We need Current Family Tree Information.

If you go to the FAMILY GENEALOGY TREE in the column to the right, you can open it by clicking on the RED words This Family Tree and locate your immediate family's limbs, branches, and twigs on the family tree.

The further back you go, the more accurate the information actually is. What we need most is more MODERN up-to-date information.

Locate your part of the family's information and update it for us, PLEASE. Email to us the new and improved data. Don't worry about formating the data. Just give us the names and important dates, tell us what generation they are in and under whose name they should go. Generation numbers are included just to the LEFT of each name.

In order to have the NEW information included in the revised tree, you MUST get it to us. We will maintain the original document in order to guarantee security. Sorry!