Bernice Beard

1923 - 2014

Beard, Bernice Anne Volk; December 4, 2014; age 91. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio on March 11, 1923 to Karl Edward and Anne Sophia Volk (Sandmann). She was a resident of Dearborn since 1932 and a 1941 graduate of Fordson High School. Bernice graduated in 1945 from Wayne State University with a B.S in Home Economics and taught several years in the Dearborn schools before becoming a mother and homemaker. On June 22, 1951, she married James Edmond Beard, M.D., who preceded her in death by only a few months. Mrs. Beard was also preceded in death by her parents and daughter-in-law, Martha Beard. She is survived by her daughter, Marcia-Anne Beard Dunbar (Earl) and son David Volk Beard, PhD, grandsons Jonathan and James Dunbar, sister, Ruth Beyer (Frank), nieces, nephews, cousins and many friends. A burial service will be Tuesday, December 23, 2014 at 10:30 a.m. at Acacia Park, and a Memorial Service at 2:30 p.m. at the Dearborn Evangelical Covenant Church, 18575 W. Outer Drive, Dearborn. Memorials may be made to the church or to the Bay View Association, Petoskey, MI. Further information at www.howepeterson.com