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Winkle, Wilbur P., Belleville, MI
(Formerly of Milan)
Age 77, died Sunday October 24, 1999 at. St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. He was born June 19, 1922 in Putnam Co, OH to Frederick and Lenna (Wineland) Winkle. On June 27, 1942 he married Leona Wardle in Mooreville, then they moved to Belleville and enjoyed many summers at Carp Lake. Wilbur retired from the VanBuren Schools in 1982. Survivors include his wife Leona; three sons, Frederick of Stockbridge, MI, Robert (Donna) and Wilbur Jr. (Luanne), both of Ypsilanti; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; his brother, Ford (Lillian) of Grand Rapids; two sisters, Lavon (George) Beeman of Chelsea and Anna Reese of Saline. Preceded in death by two sisters, Betty Delf and Vera Stafford. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Wednesday at Ochalek-Stark Funeral Home, Milan with the Rev. Peter Harris of Stony Creek Methodist Church officiating. Burial will follow in Mooreville cemetery. Those desiring may make contributions to the Stony Creek Methodist of Paradise Lake Assoc. (Carp Lake). Envelopes area available at the funeral home where friends may call beginning 7-9 p.m.tonight and 2-9 p.m. Tuesday.
Shuey, (Fullerton) Dorothy Evelyn, (Mother of James Fullerton)
Age 79, passed away Sunday, October 24, 1999 at the Westgate Health Center in St. Louis, MI. She was born September 2, 1920 in Plymouth, MI, the daughter of Eva May Atchinson and Fred Lee Knickerbocker. On February 15, 1941 she married Elmer Fullerton in Ypsilanti. He died in 1953. She then married James Shuey, he preceded her in death. Dorothy was a homemaker. She lived most of her life in Dexter, Ann Arbor and Saginaw. The last four years she lived at Westgate Health Center in St. Louis, Michigan. She is survived by two children, James (Janice) of Ann Arbor, Carol Turner of Saginaw; four grandchildren, Michael Turner of Saginaw, Robert Turner of Stockbridge, Jeffrey (Jenette) of Grass Lake, Jody (Kim) Fullerton of Ann Arbor; three great-grandchildren, Tyler, Ciara, Jillian; one nephew, Richard (Barb) Higgins; four nieces, Beth (Dan) Orzel, Patricia (Rob) Rzelelnys, Debbie (Todd) Sangster, and Carman Knickerbocker all of Detroit. She was preceded in death by a son, two sisters, Leona Koons and Pearl Higgins, two brothers, Gerald and Lester. Our deepest appreciation for everyone who cared for Dorothy at Westgate. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Wednesday at HOSMER-MUEHLIG FUNERAL HOME, Dexter, MI. Visitation will be Tuesday 6-9 p.m. Contributions may be made to Westgate Health Center, 1149 W. Monroe, St. Louis, MI 48880.
MacDonald, Elverta S., Dexter, MI
(Formerly of Ypsilanti)
Age 85, passed away Sunday, October 24, 1999 at home. She was born April 10, 1914 in Milan, MI, the daughter of Gideon and Della (Bell) Shafer. In June of 1930, she married William E. Towler and he preceded her in death January 24, 1954. On October 7, 1964 she married Forrest MacDonald in Dallas, TX, and he survives. Elverta was a housewife, and she loved to cook and garden. In addition to her husband Forrest, survivors include three sons, Bruce (Michele) Towler of SC, Larry (Sylvia) Towler of Ypsilanti, and David (Barbara) Towler of New Haven, MI; two daughters, Janet (Robert) Riggs and Sandra (Alex) Johnson, both of Willis; 14 grandchildren; 22 great grandchildren; four great great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. She was also preceded in death by her parents and two sisters, Lucille and Ruth. Funeral service will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, October 27 at STARK FUNERAL SERVICE Moore Memorial Chapel with Fr. Robert T. Kerr of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Whittaker, MI, officiating. Burial will follow in the Highland cemetery. Memorials may be made to Arbor Hospice. Envelopes will be available at the funeral home where visitation will be held 6-9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday 1-4 and 6-9 p.m. The Rosary will be prayed 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.
Goodenough, Margaret, Ypsilanti, MI
Age 72, died Sunday, October 24, 1999. She was born on October 24, 1927 in Detroit to Silas and Margaret (Mullan) Causley. Visitation will be 6-9 p.m. Wednesday with funeral 10 a.m. Thursday at Stark Funeral Service. Burial in Mt. Olivet cemetery.
Hovater, Charlie Ford, Chelsea, MI
Age 75, died October 25, 1999 in his home. He is survived by his wife Violet five children, Daniel, Stephan, Timothy Sharon and Alison. Services will be Thursday, October 28, 11 A.M. at COLE FUNERAL CHAPEL, Chelsea, with visitation Tuesday 7-9 P.M. and Wednesday 2-4 and 7-9 P.M.
Price, Sarah F., Ann Arbor, MI
(Formerly of Joliet, IL)
passed away October 23, 1999 at age 75. Beloved wife of the late Amit J. Price and the late L.D. Hair. Survived by three sons John A. (Janet Engelman) , Stephen D. (Blanche) , Jeffrey P. (Debra) ; eight grandchildren, three great-grandchildren; brother Oscar C. Morgan; sister, Flossie M. Turner. She is remembered as a seeker of spiritual truth, and for bringing that to practice in everyday life. A memorial gathering will be held on Tuesday, October 26, 1999 at 10:30 from the Muehlig Funeral Chapel. The family will receive friends one hour before the service. Memorial contributions may be directed to Arbor Hospice Residence, or the Community Supported Anthroposophical Medicine Hospital Fund.
Schillack, Gottfried, Ann Arbor, MI
Age 78, died suddenly Sunday, October 24, 1999 at University of Michigan Hospital. He was born in Werminghof Sachsen, Germany on December 26, 1920 to the late Ernst and Emma (Israel) Schillack. He was also preceded in death by a sister Johanne Ruehlich. Gottfried retired as a machinist for the Tension Envelope Company in 1986. He was a 40 year member and a past secretary of the Ritterhuder Verein German Club in North Bergen, New Jersey. He is survived by his wife Renate; his son, Karlfred (Diane) Schillack; and one grandson Niklaus Schillack; and also numerous nieces and nephews in Germany. A memorial service will be held Tuesday, October 26, 1999 at 2:00 PM at Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 3050 S. Fletcher, Chelsea. Interment will be private. Memorial contributions may be made to Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church. Arrangements by the MUEHLIG FUNERAL CHAPEL.
Lacy, M.W., 3709 Laurel Ledge Lane
Austin, TX
Departed this life on Wednesday, October 20, 1999, at the age of 88, and is now joyfully reunited with his beloved wife, Connie. Widner Lacy, whom everyone called Wide, was born in the factory town of Wyandotte, Michigan in 1911, and grew up in a tall brick house on Chestnut Street.A natural engineer from the day of his birth, he distinguished himself early in the field of Halloween pranks. His famous ghost that rose moaning from the shrubbery to flit suddenly into the trees almost certainly reappears from time to time to trouble the dreams of a few surviving trick-or-treaters, old men now doubtless marked for life by the experience. Wide studied Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University, but the Depression forced him to give up graduate school and look for a job anywhere he could find one. The one he found was with the Michigan Consolidated Gas Company, lighting warning lanterns for the Street Department: the very bottom of the heap. Wide came from a good family, but in the Street Department, a mixed lot of first and second-generation immigrants from all over Europe, he learned about good men. From the boss, Tom LaRue, he learned that a man ain't any good if he don't make a few mistakes --just don't make too many of 'em. Nick Marx and his two brothers taught him valuable lessons in labor-management relations, including the time when the four of them picked up a small-minded supervisor by the arms and legs and conducted the seat of his pants down a few feet of barbed-wire fence. And it was in the State Department that Wide developed his abiding love of heavy equipment. The three happiest days in his life were probably the day he married, the day his daughter was born, and the day he got to operate the excavator crane. As an engineer, as a manager, as a husband and father, Wide always looked at things and wondered what they might become, not how he could possess them as they were. Everything he touched grew and changed and became more than it was, and when he eventually became the General Manager of the Ann Arbor District of Michigan Con, he used his engineer's creativity and his Street Department wisdom to become a respected and effective leader. He cared for everyone on the payroll, even and perhaps especially the ones he had to struggle with, and they all knew it. When he retired, instead of the usual watch, the company gave him the works of a grandfather's clock, and the members of the Union Local, who had called him Little Caesar to his face but Uncle Wide behind his back, gave him the wood to build its case. Wide's great love was his beautiful wife, Connie. It was she, when they moved to Ann Arbor, who found the old farm that was the Lacy home for twenty-four years --a place Wide used to call too big to mow and too small to plow --but it was Wide whose hands transformed the old house, year by year, from a dowdy old frump into a lovely matron, sturdy and sound and resplendent with the wood paneling he made with his grandfather Hathaway's hand tools. Together, they made it warm and hospitable, fragrant with good food and fresh sawdust, in roughly equal proportions. There, Wide would lead his little daughter, Julia, on starlit walks over the snow, criss-crossed with rabbit tracks, to see where the fairies had been dancing. There, he read to her, not children's tales, but the great vivid myths of the old Norse people, and taught her the names of the stars, and told her the story of the wonderful monk Gregor Mendel, and the monastery garden where he first worked out the principles of genetics. There, he showed her that holiness was always to be found in the wind and woods and water, and that some trees are more alive than others. And in his workshop there, he built her the glorious Irish harp that she has been playing up hill and down dale, all over the country, ever since. As the years passed, the love between Wide, Connie and Julia was never severed by distance or broken by misunderstanding. In 1977, Wide and Connie retired to Austin, which Julia had recently made her home, and settled comfortably into life on Laurel Ledge Lane, where a generation of school science projects passed through the mystic realm of Wide's workshop. Julia's marriage brought her husband Roy into the circle, and they bought a house on the same street as Wide and Connie's. As their lives drew to their close, Wide and Connie remained in their home, requiring no assistance that Julia and Roy could not gladly give. At last, at the age of eighty-seven, Connie passed from this life on June 26 of this year, and Wide followed on October 20, aged eighty-eight. They ran the race side by side, finished together, and did all things well. Julia and Roy will miss them beyond all saying, but so much of what they were has been built into their own lives that their memory will never be far away. Wide's tools will build new projects in Roy's and Julia's hands, and the lessons that Julia learned from her father's life -to expect to find wisdom in others and to love the beauty of all created things --will continue to inform their own. Most of all, they will be glad to look back on the graceful lives of two people who let their marriage be their art, and taught them to do the same. A memorial service will be held at 4:30 p.m. Friday, October 29, 1999 at First Presbyterian Church, 8001 Mesa Dr, in Austin, followed by a brief reception. Roy and Julia Armstrong will receive friends Friday evening from 7:00 to 9:00 at Wide and Connie's home at 3709 Laurel Ledge Lane. In lieu of flowers, Julia and Roy would appreciate memorial contributions to the Nature Conservancy, 4245 N. Fairfax Dr, Ste 100, Arlington, VA 22203-1606, to the Salvation Army, or to the Humane Society of Austin and Travis County.
Burley, Hugh Alden, Ann Arbor, MI
Age 85, passed away October 23, 1999 in Livonia, MI. He was born April 23, 1914 in Peck, MI. Survivors are his wife of 51 years, Elizabeth Burley of Ann Arbor, MI; and his son, David Burley of Ann Arbor, MI. Mr. Burley came to the Superior Twp Community from Detroit, MI in 1948, when he also built his own home. He was a postal clerk at the main Ann Arbor Post Office. After his retirement he worked for Jacobson's. He loved art, music, and gardening. Many of Mr. Burley's paintings are of Australia. They are displayed at many Ann Arbor street fairs. He has worked at D&M Art Studios in Plymouth and has had art displayed at the Plymouth Community Arts Council Shows. Several of his articles on his paintings have been printed in the Community Crier ( '72 and '84). The funeral services will be held Wednesday, October 27, 1999, 11am at the Schrader-Howell Funeral Home with Rev. Edward Coley and Pastor Larry Mattis Officiating. Burial will be at United Memorial Gardens, Superior Township, MI. Memorials may be made to Arbor Hospice.
Fraser, Donald Bruce, Fort Gratiot, MI
Age 65, passed away October 21, 1999 in Mercy Hospital, Port Huron, MI after a short illness. He was born in Ann Arbor, MI, February 13, 1934 to Ernest Russell and Rubie G. Fraser. He married Carol F. Lindsay on August 13, 1960 in the Utica Methodist Church. He was a graduate of Ann Arbor High School and the University of Michigan, earning degrees in both Industrial & Mechanical Engineering. He went on to become a registered professional engineer. He served in the U.S. Army in Japan during the Korean War & spent his professional life as a design engineer at the Ford Motor Company, retiring after 31 years. During his retirement, he acted as a consultant in automotive design to technical engineering firms. He was a member of the Presbyterian Church where he served as Treasurer He also had been very active in the U of M Alumni association and acted as President of the Livonia area Alumni association for several years. He was a avid sports fan and was a dedicated golfer, bridge player and traveler.He leaves behind a loving family, including his wife, Carol; his son and daughter-in-law, John and Susan Fraser; daughter, Patricia Fraser; grandchildren, Robert W. Fraser and Lindsay K. Fraser; father-in-law, W. James Lindsay; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, James D. and Shara Lindsay; sister-in-law, C. Jane Appleman; as well as special nieces and nephews and cousins. Visitation will take place at Pollock Randall Funeral Home in Port Huron, MI, on Sunday from 2-6 p.m. and funeral services will be Monday at 11 a.m., followed by Interment at Lakeside cemetery in Port Huron. Memorials may be sent to Lakeshore Presbyterian Church, Fort Gratiot, MI. The pallbearers will be: James D. Lindsay, James S. Lindsay, Thomas G. Appleman, Richard D. Appleman, James E. Appleman and Douglas Flessner.
Dakin, Katherine J., Pittsfield Township, MI
Age 92, died Tuesday, October 19, 1999 at her home. She was born March 31, 1907 in Ypsilanti, MI, the daughter of Carl and Fannie (Joslyn) Bange. On November 2, 1929 she married Gerald F. Dakin Sr. in Ann Arbor, who preceded her in death on November 25, 1997. Mrs. Dakin had attended Cleary College and graduated from Michigan Normal College (EMU) with her teaching certificate. She worked for many years as an office manager at King Engineering in Ann Arbor and was a member of West Side United Methodist Church. Survivors include her sons, Gerald (Madelyn) Dakinof Milan, MI and Richard (Sharyn) Dakin of Tampa, FL; her daughters, Betty K. Dakin of Ann Arbor, MI and Mary Ellen (Don) Koch of Escondido, CA; nine grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Gerald Dakin Sr. and her grandson, Gerald Dakin III. Memorial contributions may be made in her honor to the West Side United Methodist Church, 900 South Seventh, Ann Arbor, MI 48103, where a memorial service will be held 1 p.m. Friday, October 29 with Rev. Tracy Huffman officiating. Arrangements by Nie Funeral Home, 2400 Carpenter.
Meyers, Richard, Ann Arbor, MI
Age 51, died Monday, October 25, 1999. He was born on February 1, 1948in Ypsilanti, the son of Leonard and Constance (Diesentroh) Meyers. Richard was a resident of Northfield Township and farmed in Washtenaw County. He was also well known for being a Master Hunter Dog Trainer. Richard was an avid supporter of the NRA. He was a member of Michigan Hunting Dog Association, Southern Michigan Weimaraner Club, and the M.U.C.C. He is survived by his brother Robert L. Meyers of Ann Arbor; his sisters, Gerry (George) Hellner of Ann Arbor and Ginny Runyon of Whitmore Lake; long time companion, Karen Mayo of Ann Arbor; and nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Thursday, October 28 at MUEHLIG FUNERAL CHAPEL.The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Wednesday from 1-4and 7-9 p.m. Those wishing may make contributions to the Michigan Hunting Dog Federation.
