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| Born: | 21 Aug 1897 Superior, Wisconsin | ||
| Died: | 18 Jan 1932 Petoskey, Michigan | ||
| Father: | Elisha Albion Higgins | ||
| Mother: | Susan Mable Davis | ||
| Siblings: | Cora May Higgins Joseph Davis Higgins Eliza Higgins Augustus Higgins Susannah Higgins Richard David Higgins Dorothy Mable Higgins John Henry Higgins Lottie Lora Higgins Mary Louise Higgins Bertha Edna Higgins Charles Higgins Jessie Higgins Raymond Otto Higgins | ||
| Married: | 1914 Superior, Wisconsin | ||
| Spouse: | Frank Gottlieb Heinz Jr. | ||
| Children: | Floyd Leonard Heinz Inez Marie Heinz Carol June Heinz Leslie Eugene Heinz Lyle Kenneth Heinz | ||
| Married: | 5 Sep 1923 Ontonagon, Michigan | ||
| Spouse: | George John Weyenberg | ||
| Children: | George John Weyenberg, Jr. | ||
Her parents are Elisha Albion Higgins and Susan Mable Davis.
She was a blue baby, which means she was born with a bad heart. It was twice its natural size with a leakage of the valve. Uncle Joe, her older brother would carry her around all the time to save her strength. She went to school four years and passed the eighth grade.
Mary Louise met Frank Heinz in the Five & Dime Store where she worked. He played violin and he would sing to her the song, "I Found A Million Dollar Baby in the Five and Ten Cent Store".
She was eighteen and he was thirty one when they married in 1914 in Superior, Wisconsin.
They were together seven years and had five children: Floyd Leonard, Inez Marie, Carol June, Leslie Eugene and Lyle Kenneth Heinz.
Leslie always said he was born in a barn: Mary climbed up into a hayloft after a hen and began the child-bearing process right there.
When Lyle was just a toddler, Mary's husband Frank Jr. was killed in a hunting accident. After Frank died, Mary had to go to work once again to support her children, leaving her children in the care of family.
Two years after Frank died Mary met George John Weyenberg and they were married.
George and Mary heard from relatives that "good farm land" was available near Harbor Springs, so in 1931 they moved to the lower Peninsula. For a while they lived on Spring Street in a house across from Fred Main's house. The Heinz family next moved out to a fruit farm on a road towards Cross Village.
