Bernard Albertson

Bernard Lee "Bernie" Albertson † (November 1, 1938 - October 8, 2019 [aged 80]) was an American YouTuber who was known for his viral video "An old man's advice". Outside of YouTube, he was also an author, having written many books during his lifetime.
==Personal Life==
===Early Life===
Bernard Albertson was born on November 1, 1938, at a Catholic hospital in Long Beach, California, to parents Lawrence Calvin Albertson and Marian Louise Weliever. His father was a former lieutenant for the U.S. Navy during World War 2 and Korean War and his mother was a bookkeeper. He was raised in Crawfordsville, Indiana and later Chula Vista, California near San Diego, along with his older sister Nancy and younger brother Michael.
As his father was in the Navy, his family would often move places around the country back in his childhood and frequently went on a roadtrips with his mother from Crawfordsville to San Diego to visit his father. He also used to drive an old steamer around West Coast as a child.
At some time, he and his mother were stuck inside of a vehicle during a snowstorm in New Mexico and a truck driver helped them moving out of the snowstorm. He mentioned that the event caused an inspiration for one of his children's books "Angry Angel (2005)", as his mother continued to believe all truck drivers were angels since the truck driver helped them out.
He was an athlete and a baseball player as an adolescent. In 1954, He dropped out of high school in 10th grade, which then caused his parents to kick him out, leaving him homeless and living in his van at age 16. The same year, he got his first job at a Shell gas station, in Chula Vista, working 90 hours a week, and were paid $1 per hour. He had to bathe in the gas station restroom regularly and was forced to resort to stealing fruits from a nearby grocery store due to near starvation. Around that time, he had found God while he was crying inside his van, which later credits it for renewing his life.
===Career and Marriages, Later Life & Death===
At age 17, he joined the U.S. Coast Guard and later the U.S. Army after missing a meeting from Coast Guard, took a basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, spending 3 years in Europe. During his time in the military, he noticed he was illiterate and began to educate himself by reading books and writing for several months. The first book he read, was one of the books by and the first thing he wrote was a poem for his mother. This was also at the time he began a writing career, started in 1957.
After he was honorably discharged from both the Coast Guard and Army, Bernard moved to Indianapolis, Indiana and took a job as a construction worker for Sears. He was married to Carol Coddington in 1960, with whom he'd have 4 children: Lisa, David, Anna Lee & Beth. The family moved to Anaheim, California, with Bernard calling it a good time in his life, and later moved back to Indianapolis. From 1971, Bernard and his wife started two businesses together; his wife opened a pet grooming shop and he started a construction business.
His wife Carol was diagnosed with colon cancer in 1973 and Bernard would nurse his wife for the next 8 years until her death in 1980 at the age of 38. As a result of Carol's diagnosis and death, the two businesses would fail and led the family struggle both financially and Bernard raising his children as a single parent along with child services. In order to financially support his family, Bernard began working numerous jobs such as warehouse nightwatchman for Pinkerton and a prison security for Indiana Department of Corrections before working as a silversmith for General Motors.
In 1982, He was remarried to his second wife Donna whom he had met through his friend's dinner and the couples gave birth to their son Jason in 1985. He was retired from General Motors with a pension at age 53 after 15 years of working and would move to Rockville, Indiana, a town about 60 miles west of Indianapolis.
Bernard was a Christian, had a worldwide bible study and been studying scripture for his whole life since he was a homeless teenager. Shortly after he retired from General Motors, he along his wife would work at a Catholic church in Plainfield, Indiana for over 10 years, with parishioners and priests asking him to pray with them and he gladly did.
In Rockville and later Phoenix, Arizona, Bernard and his wife would live full-time in a recreation vehicle for over 15 years, traveling around the country with it. The recreation vehicle was "Anna Lee", named after his late daughter who passed away from cancer in 2004. In 2019, they bought a house in Tucson after unsuccessfully attempted to trade their old recreation vehicle for motorhome.
He has written his first book titled Through The Eyes Of The Children and published it in 2000. From then, he continued writing more books. Ten years later, he launched his YouTube channel for discussing his opinions on certain topics like religion. Several years later, he uploaded "An old man's advice" which made him gain popularity, then passed away on October 8, 2019 at his residence in Tucson, Arizona. From then, his family continued uploading on a non-scheduled basis.
==Bibliography==
*Through The Eyes Of The Children (2000)
*So You Think There Is No Santa Claus (2000)
*Nancy Chrisman Weliever, Indiana Woman (2002)
*Angry Angel (2005)
*Copper Penny (2015)
*The Life And Visions Of The Prophet Ezekiel (2015)
*The Revelation To John (2017)
*God's Early Prophets: Joel And Amos (2017)
*Ricco Gonzalas And The Big Cats On Panther Mountain: The Twins And Jeremy And The Goose (2017)
*Jesus Arrested and Crucified (2017)
*Daniel's Amazing Life, His Strength, His Faith, His God (2017)
*Grandfather Beezerwitts And His Big Red Balloon: & Emily's Pond (2017)
*A Widow's Courage (2018)
*Saint Mark (2018)
*Genesis: His Masterpiece In Six Days (2018)
*Saint Luke: His Walk And Writings Of Christ (2018)
*Matthew (2018)
*Saint John (2018)
*Hosea, Prophet Of God: A Good and Godly Man (2018)
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