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Bern loved being busy and enjoyed his "shop" being there almost all day.īern was very civic minded. Bern retired a second time in 2002 yet he continued to help out with maintenance on the apartments for Look Realty up until a year ago. Upon retirement, he worked for his son, Steve, at Look Realty and had his Real Estate Brokers license. Bern retired in 1994 with his last haircut given to his granddaughter, Courtney. Upon his return in 1955 he established "Bern's Barber Shop" on Presque Isle Avenue, the same shop that once was Dona's father's barber shop. After being injured in the mine (he pushed a fellow miner out of the way of a falling rock) in 1954, he and Dona went to Detroit so he could go to barber school.
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In 1953 he married the former Dona Remillard at St. In fact in his final jump, the winds took him and left him unconscious and he had to be carried home. In his younger years, Bern loved skiing and jumping at Suicide Hill. After the Army he was employed as a welder for CCI. He was a SFC where he was honorably discharged in 1952. He graduated from Ishpeming High School in 1946 and attended NMU before entering the Army in 1950. Jacobetti Home for Veterans.īern was born on Septemin Ishpeming, a son of the late Ed and Alma Pelto and was a lifelong Marquette County resident. Bern Pelto, 91, of Marquette, passed away Sunday morning, Apat the D.J.