Listed here are the major milestones or personal events that occurred during the life of Edna (Heiden) Berns and other closely related family members. This includes the dates of birth, marriage and death along with the places of residence over the years. Events are noted for this person and his or her spouse and children.
0 23 Sep 1898 Eby Farm in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan. She was the first of the thirteen children of William Carl and Mary (Rambow) Heiden .
2 William Carl (26) and Mary (22) with their first child, Edna (1) were living on a farm that they were buying in Raisinville Township but the census did not give an exact address. It was known as the Albright Farm on South Custer Road in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
 
5-10 1903-1908 Attended kindergarten through 5th grade at nearby King School on South Custer Road, Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
11-20 1909-1918 On his 35th birthday, April 1, 1909, William Carl Heiden purchased the farm at 8861 Dixon Road, Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
13 1911 Completed 8th grade at Bridge School, Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
19 11 May 1918 Edna married Henry Lewis Berns in St Matthew Lutheran Church in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
20-27 1918-1925 Living at the site of the current address of 8530 Dixon Road which was a house for the hired hands on the east side of the Wakefield Farm. That house no longer exists. Her sons, Walter was born here in 1919 and Lavern in 1920.
20 26 Feb 1919 Walter William Berns was born in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
21 9 Aug 1920 Lavern Frederick Berns was born in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
28-43 1926-1941 Living at 11501 Dixon Road in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan. The family consisted of Doris, Eva, Laura and Linda. Over the years, Edna's brothers, Leo and his wife, Lucille, and Lester and his wife, Lila, lived with them for short periods.
28 19 Aug 1927 Doris Mayetta (Drake) Berns was born in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio. Her parents were Alonzo and Verna Drake. Verna was Charlie Fuller's sister and she was unable to financial support the child during the Great Depression so Doris was adopted by Edna and Henry Berns in 1930.
31 Still at 11501 Dixon Road in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
Eva Marie (Berns) McCarthy was born in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan. Eva mentioned that she and her sister, Laura, would walk the 2 miles to Bridge School and back each day.
Laura Lee Mildred (Berns) Shoemaker was born in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
40 17 Mar 1939 Mildred (Heiden) Eipperle died due to the complications of a kidney ailment at the age of 30 in Monroe Hospital, Monroe, Michigan.
40 10 Apr 1939 Lavern Frederick Berns and Hildegarde M. Andrews were married in St Matthew Lutheran Church in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
42 Still living at 11501 Dixon Road, Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
Linda Lou (Berns) Miller was born in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
43-46 1941-1944 Hallie Farm near Maple Grove Cemetery in Dundee, Michigan.
43 3 May 1941 Walter William Berns and Madelyn Eleanor Hanson were married in St Matthew Lutheran Church in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
45 1943-1945 Lavern Frederick Berns served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
46-87 1944-1985 7460 South Custer Road, Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan. Doris, Eva, Laura and Linda were living with their parents here during this period until their marriages.
48 9 Aug 1947 Doris Mayetta (Drake) Berns and Gerhardt Althoff were married in St Matthew Lutheran Church in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
52 Still living at 7460 South Custer Road, Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
Laura Lee Mildred (Berns) Shoemaker and Roger Dale Shoemaker were married in St Matthew Lutheran Church in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
Linda Lou (Berns) Miller and Richard Carl Miller were married in St Matthew Lutheran Church in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
Eva Marie (Berns) McCarthy and Dennis Paul McCarthy were married in New Era, Oceanna County, Michigan.
65 11 June 1963 Mary (Rambow) Heiden died at the age of 85 at her home in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
66 27 Dec 1964 Doris Mayetta (Drake, Berns) Althoff died in a car accident near Ida, Monroe County, Michigan. at the age of 37.
69 31 Jan 1967 William Carl Heiden died at the age of 92 at his home in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
74 23 July 1972 Carl Heiden died at the age of 71 in Mercy Memorial Hospital in Monroe, Michigan.
78 19 June 1977 Henry Lewis Berns died at the age of 82 at his home in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
79 13 June 1978 Hilda (Heiden) Fuller died at the age of 71 in Wood County Hospital in Bowling Green, Ohio while on a vacation trip.
80 12 Sep 1979 Leo Heiden died at the age of 77 at home in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.
86 20 June 1985 Arthur Henry Heiden died at the age of 72 in University of Michigan. Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
87-90 1985-1988 Rawson Place Apartments at 501 Rawson Street, Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan.
90 28 Oct 1988 Lavern Frederick Berns died at the age of 68 in Monroe, Monroe County, Michigan.
90 18 Dec 1988 At home in Dundee, Monroe County, Michigan.

21 Dec 1988

 St. Matthew Lutheran Church Cemetery in Raisinville Township, Monroe County, Michigan.