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 Walter William Berns
was born Wednesday, February 26, 1919 as the oldest child of Edna (Heiden) and Henry Berns. This made him the oldest of his generation of the
38 grandchildren of the William Carl and Mary (Rambow) Heiden family. He was born at the family home in
Raisinville Township and attended Bridge School through the 8th grade in 1932. On May 3, 1941, he married Madelyn Eleanor Hanson of Dundee in a ceremony at
St
Matthew Lutheran Church. They had five children.
He and Madelyn were active in community work. Walter received the Michigan Minuteman award (also known as the Governor's Award) for outstanding volunteer work from Secretary of State Richard Austin on May 22, 1986. He worked at Ford Motor Company from 1955 until his retirement in February, 1985.   Madelyn
was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the Genealogical Society of Monroe County, Monroe County Historical Society and the Dundee Women's Civic Association. She and Walter
were active with the Old Mill Restoration Committee which worked on restoring the Ford Mill on the River Raisin in Dundee. On January 23, 2014, Walter was 94 when he died at Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe, Michigan. He is buried at the
St
Matthew Lutheran Church
cemetery in
Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
Madelyn passed away on March 2015 at the age of 91 in Dundee and is also buried at St Matthew Lutheran Church cemetery. | 
Click on the Newspaper button to see the 12 articles about these two wonderful people who were very active in their community. Walter was known for dropping in to visit with elderly relatives to give them a bit of sunshine. He lived in the same nursing facility in Monroe as my mother,
