2020-09-10

Area Activities

PFLAG PFLAG Grosse Pointe meets via Zoom at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 10. Visit its Facebook page, PFLAGGP, for the link. The Helm The Helm at the Boll Life Center, 158 Ridge, Grosse Pointe Farms, offers the following programs: * On the Gogh Studio, “The Pumpkin Patch,” 1 to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 22, with instructor Michelle Boggess. Cost is […]

‘Chamber Bucks’ program launches

The Grosse Pointe Chamber of Commerce recently kicked off a new gift certificate program called Chamber Bucks, which is designed to keep money in the community and bring new sales to local businesses. Through the program, Chamber Bucks gift certificates may only be spent at participating chamber member businesses, which ensures the user is shopping locally. Gift certificates may be […]

League pursues its mission virtually

By Margaret Freundl The League of Women Voters Grosse Pointe has a long history of encouraging the informed and active participation of Grosse Pointe and Harper Woods citizens in government. Committed to voter and public policy education, the chapter has taken on COVID-19 restrictions to continue its mission this fall. After an early spring of event cancellations and postponements, members […]

Joseph E. Bejin Jr.

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Former Grosse Pointe resident Joseph “Joe” E. Bejin Jr., 84, passed away Friday, Aug. 28, 2020. He was born Jan. 26, 1936, in Detroit, to Joseph and Marian Bejin (nee Hafeli). A loving husband and father of four children, Joe met and married his wife of 62 years, Marilynn Blondell Krumholz, in Detroit. He attended St. Paul High School in […]

Alan Burke Andrews

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Alan Burke Andrews, a resident of Las Vegas, passed away Saturday, Aug. 15, 2020, at St. Rose Dominican Hospital. He was 77. Born May 4, 1943, in Detroit, to Rhoda and Ed Andrews, he grew up in Grosse Pointe. Alan, better known as “Stubby,” was a 1961 graduate of Grosse Pointe High School, where he excelled in academics and sports. […]

Julianne M. Roesch

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Former Grosse Pointe Park resident Julianne M. Roesch (nee Lynch), died Tuesday, Sept. 1, 2020. Born July 15, 1925, she and her family moved to Bloomfield Hills in 1959. Julianne was a parishioner at St. Hugo of the Hills Catholic Church for 37 years.  She was the beloved wife of the late Carl J. Roesch for 50 years; dear mother […]

Nancy J. Ferguson Waugaman

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Former Grosse Pointe Farms resident Nancy J. Ferguson Waugaman, 89, passed away peacefully Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, in Scottsdale, Ariz. The daughter of Rachel and Howard Ferguson, she was born July 25, 1931, in Shaker Heights, Ohio.   Nancy graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science degree in restaurant management. Using her food service skills, she worked with Stouffer’s […]

Marie Antoinette VandenBoom

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Marie Antoinette VandenBoom passed away Wednesday, March 25, 2020, at her home surrounded by her five children.  Beloved wife of 64 years to the late Cornelius “Dutch“ VandenBoom, she was born May 5, 1930, to Frances and Joseph DeFoe. Marie was sister to Joanne Leonard and the late John, Marguerite DePuys and Joseph Jr.; loving mother of Daniel (Dorette), Michael […]

Rita Elizabeth Flaherty

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Rita Elizabeth Flaherty, 84, passed away quietly Sunday, Aug. 30, 2020, at Sunrise on Vernier in Grosse Pointe Woods. Rita was born Nov. 19, 1935, in Chester, Pa., to John Edward Flaherty and Mary Irene Flaherty (nee Miller). She moved with her family to Detroit in the early 1960s and settled in Grosse Pointe Farms. She lived in Harper Woods […]

The Hon. Patricia Jean Campbell

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Retired Wayne County Probate Judge Patricia Jean Campbell (nee Biskupic), a resident at The Rivers in Grosse Pointe Woods, passed away peacefully Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020, with family at her side. She was predeceased by her husband, Donald Alexander Campbell (1933-2000).  Patricia was born in 1932, in Sheboygan, Wis. Her father, Vinko Biskupic, emigrated from Croatia to the U.S. during […]