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Former Chrysler purchasing chief Dan Knott, who retired two weeks ago for medical reasons, died Sunday, Chrysler said in a news release. Knott was 51 and had been battling cancer. Chrysler said Knott died peacefully in his sleep about 2:15 a.m. and was surrounded by his family.
Margaret Barnes, who helped her husband, Donald Barnes, transform Belle Tire from one store to a chain with more than 85 locations, died Monday of congestive heart failure at Memorial Hospital in Savannah, Ga., surrounded by family. The longtime resident of Beverly Hills was 90.
Kalman Bandalene, a longtime schoolteacher and principal for Southfield Public Schools, used inspiration from India's legendary leader Mahatma Gandhi when he helped design an elementary school in the district. Mr. Bandalene, known to friends as Kal, died of natural causes Friday at his home in West Bloomfield. He was 89.
Charles Colson, the tough-as-nails special counsel to President Richard Nixon who went to prison for his role in a Watergate-related case and became a Christian evangelical helping inmates, died Saturday. He was 80. Colson's death was confirmed by Jim Liske, the chief executive of the Lansdowne, Va.-based Prison Fellowship Ministries that Colson founded.
Funeral services are set for 11 a.m. Wednesday for Robert Cipriano, the Dearborn Schools business manager bludgeoned to death in an attack that left his wife and 17-year-old son in critical condition.
Pamela McClain remembers as a child riding in the car with her daddy, Gaston Paul McClain Sr. A couple of white police officers pulled him over and said to her dad, "Where you going, boy?" Her father did what a black man had to do at the time. He politely answered the officers.
Dick Clark, the TV personality who introduced rock 'n' roll to much of the nation on "American Bandstand" and for four decades was the first and last voice many Americans heard each year with his New Year's Eve countdowns, died Wednesday. He was 82.
It had to happen sometime, but it still seems hard to believe: Dick Clark, the man who for so many years never seemed to get old, has died.
Sports played an important role in Joseph Cooper Salsberry's life, but the athletic 12-year-old was especially fond of baseball and hockey. An infielder with the Lake Orion Diamond Dawgs, Cooper, as he was known, also played goalie for the 99 Troy Sting and recorded a shutout in his final game Friday.
Kenneth Charles Taitt was a pioneer in the military during World War II as well as at the Free Press, where he had a 22-year advertising career.
George Kuhn, Oakland County's drain commissioner for 30 years until his retirement in 2000, died Monday in Highland Ranch, Colo. He was 87. Mr. Kuhn was a captain in the Navy during the Korean War, mayor of Berkley and a state senator representing West Bloomfield before he was elected drain commissioner in 1970.
His signature achievement as drain commissioner was the development of the George W. Kuhn drainage district improvements project, a cooperative agreement between the county and 14 communities in southeast Mchigan which cost $144 million and treats sewage overflow.
A family spokesman says California artist Thomas Kinkade, known for scenes of cottages, country gardens and churches in dewy morning light, has died.
The freedom of the open waters and the everyday challenges that came with captaining Great Lakes freighters were among the reasons Donald Erickson chose a nautical career. Of course, high adventure was part of the package, too, and Mr. Erickson, who sailed the Great Lakes for nearly 40 years as an employee of Ford, had his share of close encounters.
