Friday, April 13, 2012
Local leaders recall Kuhn as a 'gentleman' and 'true public servant.'
George Kuhn, a former state senator for West Bloomfield and Oakland County Drain Commissioner, died Monday in Highland Ranch, CO, at the age of 87. Kuhn was a Detroit native who was elected mayor of Berkley in 1960 and served as a local leader until his retirement in 2000. He was also a state senator representing West Bloomfield before being elected as Oakland County’s drain commissioner in 1970, where he served for 30 years. Kuhn was a graduate of Central Michigan University, captain in the United States Navy Reserve during the Korean War and retired Ford Motor Co. executive. In 2005 when the George W. Kuhn drainage improvements project was completed, improving 14 communities in southeastern Michigan. The project cost almost $144 million…
Friday, February 10, 2012
The 53-year-old West Bloomfield resident who was a Wall Street Journal and best-seller writer died in northern Michigan on Friday morning.
West Bloomfield resident and best-selling author Jeffrey Zaslow, 53, who co-wrote The Last Lecture, died Friday morning in an auto accident in northern Michigan. According to the Antrim County Sheriff's Office, a vehicle lost control on M-32 and skidded into the path of a truck Friday morning; the car's driver was killed, a dispatcher confirmed. Zaslow recently published a new novel, The Magic Room, and was a featured speaker last month at the West Bloomfield Optimist Club breakfast meeting and a frequent speaker at functions throughout West Bloomfield and Farmington. "He recently spoke at one of our meetings and our members were in awe of his commitment," said Optimist Club President Robert Brooks. "His whole community will miss him …
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
The funeral for Renee Flennoy is set for 1 p.m. Friday at Hope United Methodist Church in Southfield; Derby will let out early Friday to allow students and staff to attend.
Renee Flennoy, a sixth-grade language arts, reading and social studies teacher at Derby Middle School in Birmingham, died Sunday after a long battle with health issues. Flennoy, 54, had been on medical leave from Derby since October. The Novi resident leaves behind her husband, Grant, and her two college-age children, Grant Jr. and Khristen. Flennoy's funeral is set for 1 p.m. Friday at Hope United Methodist Church, 26275 Northwestern Highway in Southfield, with visitation beginning at 11:30 a.m. To allow students and staff to attend the funeral, Derby will have a half-day of school Friday, Derby Principal Debbie Hubbell announced Tuesday. Since Flennoy went on medical leave, the middle school has held several fundraisers for her, …
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Thursday, October 6, 2011
Apple co-founder died Wednesday, leaving behind a legacy that changed the way people communicate and broke down workplace barriers.
The news of the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on Wednesday sent shock waves across the Internet during the evening, as millions of people reflected on the impact that he and his products had on everyday consumers. "Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being," Apple CEO Tim Cook said in an email sent Wednesday evening to all Apple employees, including those at Somerset Collection's Apple store. Locally, on Twitter and Facebook, people shared their favorite Apple products and reflected on how different their lives would be without the products Jobs' vision helped create. On Rochester Patch's Facebook page, Katie Webb wrote: "I read about his passing on my MacBook and then called my …
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Friday, July 8, 2011
Green "could always be counted on," said a fellow Garden Club member.
Jack E. Green, a past member of the Keego Harbor Garden Club and a 1994 retiree of the Ford Motor Co. Wixom plant, died Monday. He was 79. The family will gather with friends from 1-4 p.m. Sunday, followed by A Healing Farewell public visitation at 4 p.m. at Borek Jennings Funeral Home, 7425 East Michigan State Road 36, Hamburg. Well-known for his devotion to hard work and a "real old-time kind of decency," Green was a close friend to Karen Meabrod, a fellow resident and a Garden Club member, who said Green had been a member of the club for six years. "We could always count on him to help on our major cleanups in the spring and fall," Meabrod said. "Jack also had side jobs after he retired — he mowed and cut grass, and you would always see…
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Farmington Hills resident Benzion Gotlib died at the age of 93.
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Editor's note: This article is reprinted with permission from chabad.org. The original article can be found on the chabad.org website. By Jessica Naiman June 6, 2011 10:25 AM Benzion Gotlib loved to study Jewish texts, and thanks to the Jewish Learning Network – a worldwide Chabad-Lubavitch run effort to pair study partners by fiber optic cable and phone line – he was able to keep up a weekly learning appointment up until his passing at the age of 93. “It kept him alive,” says daughter Judy Gordon of the regular phone sessions her father had with Rabbi Yisroel Rosen of Brooklyn, N.Y. Right up until February, Gotlib would pick up the phone at his Farmington Hills, Mich., residence and study Talmud with Rosen for a half hour, described by …
Friday, June 3, 2011
Longtime resident was a lightning rod for controversy and a familiar face around town.
Assisted suicide advocate Dr. Jack Kevorkian of Royal Oak died at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak this morning after being hospitalized with kidney, liver and respiratory problems off and on for several weeks. He was 83. Kevorkian first made headlines for his right-to-die stand in 1990 when he assisted in the death of Janet Adkins, who had Alzheimer’s disease. The former pathologist admitted to assisting in an estimated 130 deaths from 1990-98. More recently, he served eight years of a 10- to 25-year sentence in the 1998 death of Thomas Youk, who suffered from Lou Gehrig's disease. He was released from prison in 2007 and returned to live in an apartment in Royal Oak, where he was frequently seen at his favorite restaurants and shops. …
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Monday, May 30, 2011
The flags and biography tags are on display this weekend at Guardian Angel Cemetery in Oakland Township.
Just inside the iron gates of Guardian Angel Cemetery on Rochester Road in Oakland Township, 245 American flags arranged meticulously in six rows flap in the breeze. Each of the flags represents a Michigan serviceman or woman who died as a result of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, and each flagpole bears that man or woman's name, photograph, hometown and a short biography. “We’ve done the flags for the past couple years, and the idea to add the tags with the bios on it was a collective idea," said Guardian Angel Cemetery Director Wendy Mann. “We’ve been working on it for the past couple months. It’s definitely a project.” Mann said the Field of Honor was erected Tuesday near the silo, but heavy rain flooded the area and forced …
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Jodi Prenzlow
1:09 am on Thursday, March 15, 2012
Just finished reading The Magic Room and felt so connected to the stories told. Jeffrey did such a beautiful job telling the stories of the mothers and daughters. I am so sorry to know that as I was reading about his hopes to walk his daughters down the isle one day, sadly he was tragically taken. He sounds like a wonderful father and his daughters I know are proud of him. more ›