David Stern (Novel Series)

David Stern is a character that appears in The Walking Dead: The Fall of the Governor. He is described as a weathered beaten, rail-thin sixty year old with an iron-gray goatee.

Georgia
Hardly anything is known about David Stern's life before or as the outbreak started. Other than he married his wife Barbara and that during there honeymoon, a trip to Iguazu, Argentina, they had all there money stolen they ended up working at a local restaurant and sleeping on the floor for 6 months.

Woodbury, Georgia
Despite their old age, The Sterns become Woodbury fighters, they show genuine caring for fellow Woodbury residents, frequently risk their own lives making supply run, they are well respected and liked by others. David is first encountered going on a supply run along with her husband, Martinez, Gus, Lilly and Austin. During their travels on the supply run Lilly asks Barbara to tell them on of her storys. David and Barbara tell her about their trip to Iguazu, Argentina. When they reach a warehouse behind a supermarket and they search it for supplies. David and the rest find locked up untouched supplies and the reanimated workers of the store and helps clear them out. David searches the warehouse with Barbara taking the supplies they need. When they hear a helicopter go down in the forest they go and investigate it but is asked by Martinez to stay in the truck.

Before leaving the Woodbury for the prison assault, the Governor ordered David and his wife Barbara to stay in the town to protect these left behind mostly old men, women and children with virtually no amunition, later walkers attacked and broke into Woodbury. Led by David and Barbara, the townspeople made a desperate fight, they managed to hold off the walkers just long enough for Lilly and other Woodbury soldiers who survived the prison attack to save the town.