Lavern "Dutch" and Hildegarde (Andrews) "Sallie" Berns and their son Galen moved here in around 1950. There was a two story brick house on the site which has since been razed. While here, they had three more children, Darrel (1952), Elaine (Eichbauer) (1953) and Joanie (McCoy) (1955).

In the late 1950s, Dutch and Sallie built a house on South Custer Road next to his parents, Edna and Hank Berns' house. His older brother, Walter Berns, his wife Madelyn and their children, Karen (1942), Lauren (1943), Allen (1944), Margie (1949) and Gwendolyn (1955).

Galen and I were the same age so I would go to his place to play often. To the right of the barn was a driveway that led from Dixon Road back to a commercial stone quarry. Although we were probably not supposed to, we sometimes went back there to play if the men weren't working that day. They had to constantly pump water out of the quarry and this discharged into a ditch to the south. The water was very cold and we were always warned not to get into it because of the fear of polio at the time. There was a belief that, for some reason, swimming in cold water could lead to polio. Oh, well.