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Noego, Michigan is a small town in the eastern central part of the lower peninsula

It sits at the south end of the Manesty National Forest and at the far northern end of what one might call the

Muskegon or Grand Rapids suburbs

Tourists come to the area for the Muskegon River in the summer and in the winter there is hunting and snowmobiling

With a population of about two thousand people it's easy to know your neighbors and keep tabs on what's happening in the community if you're so inclined

This is where Shannon Ciders grew up her parents Robert and Mary divorced when she was in kindergarten

Shannon lived with her dad which I can tell you was a pretty unusual setup in the 1970s

Divorced parents were still somewhat rare and if they did split well the kids almost always went to live with their mom

Her mother Mary was Native American

She is from the Susane Marie tribe of Chippewa making Shannon part Native American, but I can't tell you Shannon's status with the tribe

Mary Ciders she passed away in 2018 and on findagrave.com

She is listed as a quote elder of the Sioux tribe Chippewa Indians

After the split Robert moved with Shannon into his grandmother's house a modest home in Nuego and that's where she grew up

Shannon was the only child of both parents

She was loved and dotted on by her dad and grandmother

They described her as smart witty and fun to be around

In 1989 Shannon was a senior at Nuego high school

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