Ann Uicker was born at home on March 12, 1939, in Sherman Township, Michigan.  Sherman Township is located near the tip of Michigan's thumb area, in what is now Huron County.  The farmhouse where Ann was born and grew up was built by her great-grandfather in 1881, and is currently owned by the family of Ann's brother, Tom, who passed away in 2007.  The 40-acre farm stands a few miles east of Ruth, MI, but is now officially part of the larger town of Harbor Beach a little farther north, along the Huron lakeshore.

Ann was part of a large extended family that included her parents, Raymond and Lauretta (Kirsch) Schumacher, her grandparents, and five siblings, two older and three younger than Ann.  Ann's chores on the farm included helping her grandfather in the barn, hoeing beans and other crops, and helping her mother in the house.  She later remembered the War Years as a time when they didn't go hungry, but there wasn't much money for fancy clothes.  Her grandma, "Bammy", made them dresses and overalls from the cloth used in flour sacks, and she had one nicer outfit for Sundays.

Ann first attended a one-room school in the township, where she was moved ahead quickly because she could already read.  As a result, she was younger than most of her classmates, when she graduated from Harbor Beach's Our Lady of Lake Huron Catholic high school in 1956.  Ann's parents were able to send both Ann and her older sister, Arlene, to college in Detroit, with the intent of obtaining certification to teach.  Ann graduated from Marygrove College in 1960, and did, indeed, teach for a year in Dearborn, MI, before she married.  After her marriage, she continued to teach in the Evanston, IL, area until 1963.

Ann married John J. Uicker, Jr., of Detroit, MI, on August 12, 1961.  He was the son of the Dean of Engineering at the University of Detroit, an all-male Jesuit college near Marygrove, an all-female Catholic college.  John's sister, Katherine, was Ann's college roommate, and introduced her to John at a school social event.  Ann still has the placemat from the restaurant where they became engaged, among other souvenirs.  The wedding took place at Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church in Ruth, MI, and they were married by a first cousin of John's father, who had also married John's parents.  After they married, John and Ann moved to Wilmette, IL, where John was attending graduate school at Northwestern University.  Ann's first daughter, Theresa, was born in 1962, during this time.  In 1963, they moved into graduate student housing in Evanston, and welcomed their son, John, in 1964.

After her husband earned his degree, the family moved to the Philadelphia area so he could serve his time in the military.  They moved several times during this period, but eventually landed in Quarters #7 at Frankford Arsenal, in Philadelphia.  Ann's second son, Joe, was born at nearby Valley Forge Army Hospital in 1966.  Upon completion of his military service, Ann's husband took a position with the University of Wisconsin--Madison, and the family arrived in Madison in September, 1967--just in time for daughter Theresa to begin school.  Second daughter, Dorothy (Dottie) was born in December that year.  The family lived at 5813 Balsam Road, Apt. 3, which was then on the far southwest edge of town.  In the next five years, the city grew, and so did the family; third daughter, Barbara, was born in 1969, and fourth daughter, Joan, was born in 1971.

In the spring of 1972, Ann's husband took a year-long sabbatical from the UW, and the entire family moved to Michigan.  They lived for a time with Ann's in-laws at Harbor Beach, where Ann was able to take driving lessons and earn her first driver's license.  In the fall, a suitable rental house was finally located, and everyone moved to Ubly, a small town about 20 miles from the in-laws' cottage at Harbor Beach.  Ann's husband commuted between Ubly and Detroit, and Ann kept the house at 4645 Garfield Street while the three older children attended school in town.  Ann enjoyed this period because her parents were only 10 miles away, in Ruth, and the families were able to visit back and forth frequently.

In the summer of 1973, Ann's husband returned to the UW, and the whole family moved back to Madison, renting a duplex at 6210 Hammersley Road, somewhat farther west than their previous residence.  They lived there until the spring of 1978, when Ann's husband received a Fulbright scholarship to teach in England, so they all moved to Wharley End, near what is now Cranfield University in Bedfordshire.  After a year in England, the family returned to Madison, renting a house at 1614 Prairie Road, not far from the previous duplex.  They stayed there until 1986, when Ann and John divorced, and Ann bought a house at 5205 Odana Road.

Ann had done some substitute teaching during her separation from her husband, and originally intended to go back to that full time, but lacked certification for Wisconsin.  She completed classwork in Special Education, but decided she was unsuited to the classroom conditions of the time, and did not complete her re-certification, instead taking a job with Madison Newspapers.  The rest of the children finished high school and college during this time, and eventually got jobs, moved away, and married, while Ann continued to work at Madison Newspapers.  She also re-kindled her early interest in genealogy during these years and became quite accomplished at it.  In her free time, she also frequently assisted some elderly acquaintances, even taking them on short "vacation" trips.

In 1989, Ann was diagnosed with diabetes mellitus.  She had had some other health issues for some time prior, and was unable to control her blood sugar solely with oral medications, so in 1991 she began taking insulin.  This worked reasonably well until 2004, when she began to have more serious complications, and she eventually retired from her work at Capital Newspapers (formerly Madison Newspapers) in November, 2006, due to her declining health.  She developed definite signs of congestive heart failure over the next few months, and eventually began to lose kidney function as well.  In December, 2007, she was first diagnosed with "stiff heart syndrome" and the subsequent months brought more and more difficulty with daily living.  In April, 2008, Ann moved to All Saints Catholic Retirement Center at 8202 Highview Road, Apt. 63, where, with the assistance of her powered wheelchair, she was able to attend Mass regularly again.  Shortly thereafter, she entered the HospiceCare Center in Fitchburg, and passed away peacefully, in her sleep, on May 9, 2008.