The third child in the Edna (Heiden) and Henry Berns' family was Doris Mayetta (Drake, Berns) Althoff who was born Friday, August 19, 1927 in Toledo, Ohio.

Doris was the daughter of Alonzo and Verna May Drake. Verna was the older sister of Edna's brother-in-law, Virgil "Charlie" Fuller. The Drakes were unable to maintain a home for their three children during the Great Depression so Henry and Edna took Doris into their family and adopted her on August 8, 1930.

On August 9, 1947, she married Gerhardt Althoff in a ceremony at St Matthew Lutheran Church. They had four children.

Her daughter, Miriam, was the subject of a newspaper article in 1958 about a letter she received from then Vice President, Richard Nixon. At that time, the Althoffs were living at 14265 Dunbar Road near Ida, Michigan.

Doris was killed in an automobile accident on Lewis Avenue just north of Ida on Sunday, December 27, 1964. She is buried at St Matthew Lutheran Church Cemetery. Doris was 37 years old at the time of her death.

Gerhardt was born Wednesday, December 12, 1917 in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. He was a graduate of Perrysburg High School in Ohio and served three years in the Pacific theater of WW II. After the war, he worked as a mechanic at LaSalle Motor Clinic.

He died on Monday, November 11, 1991 in Kerrville, Texas at the age of 73. Gerhardt is buried in Fort Sam Houston Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.

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Living at 11501 Dixon Road in Raisinville Township, were Henry (34), Edna (30), Walter (11), Lavern (9) and Doris (3). Henry's father, Fred (79) is living there too.
Still at the rented farm at 11501 Dixon, the family consisted of Henry (45), Edna (40), Walter (21), Doris (12), Eva (8) and Laura Lee (6). Their last child, Linda, was born in September after the census was taken.  Henry's income was listed as about $400 per year.

Living on Prairie Street in Ida with husband Gerhardt (32) and daughters Miriam and Verna. Gerhardt was working at Igenfritz Nursery.