Bernard Irwin Bayer

i used to run into bernie on our community walking trail, and we would walk together and have lovely conversations. he was such a perceptive, deep thinker. i considered him to be a good friend and i am sorry he is no longer with us.

It was my pleasure to have known Bernie.
He was a friendly and good man. I enjoyed our time together when we participated in the marriage of his son to my daughter. What a great event! May he rest in peace and may God bless his family.

Bern was a very sweet and funny man. He had a great outlook on life and could converse with intelligence on any subject. It was a joy to see him sitting on a quilt in the grass with his grandson Ziggy, on a perfect summer day in East Tennessee this past June. He was a proud grandfather, and a good and admirable man. We were honored to have him as part of our family.

It was a pleasure to have known Bernie for the past fourteen years. Bernie became a life-long friend of the Dankos when he attended a family picnic held at the Danko home in Tennessee. He came to see his son, Sam, and to meet the family of Sam's girlfriend and now his wife, Ericka. What a wonderful person he was to know. He was warm, friendly, and full of humor. Uncle Valmer liked him so much that he urged him to move to Tennessee. That would have been fine with all of us. Bernie and...

Bern was a good man - intelligent, caring, and blessed with great sense of humor. He helped me out every year by teaching large lecture halls of freshmen students how to do navigate the OSU Library system. He will be fondly remembered by all his former colleagues.--- Gerry Greenberg (Columbus, OH)

I knew Bernie as a neighbor here in Keowee Key. I often walked with him on our leisure trail and chatted with him in our fitness center. He had a wonderful sense of humor and a wry outlook on life, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I considered him to be a friend and I was very sad to hear of his illness and his passing. The world is a sadder place now that he is no longer part of it. I will miss him.

My prayers are with you during this time of sorrow, Elizabeth Law (Columbus, OH)

On behalf of the faculty and staff in the Department of Physics at The Ohio State University, we extend our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Bern Bayer.

Bernie was a wonderfully funny person and a joy to have as a colleague. It was an honor to have known him and to have shared thoughtful conversations with him during his tenure at the OSU Libraries. May Bern's family and friends be comforted by their memories. The world is better for him having been in it.