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JoAn H. Mihelich
St. Clair Shores and Boca Raton, Fla. resident JoAn H. Mihelich, 71, passed away on Thursday, Oct. 3, 2002.
Mrs. Mihelich was an avid golfer and bridge player.
She is survived by her husband of 50 years, Joseph E. Mihelich; her children, Jayne (Jorge) Cortez, Joseph M. (Karen) Mihelich and Julie (Chris) Cloney; four grandchildren, Amy, Austen, Skyler and Andrea; and two step-grandchildren, Caitlin and Andrew; her sisters, June and Vera; and many relatives and friends.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, Oct. 12 at 11 a.m. at A.H. Peters Funeral Home in Grosse Pointe Woods.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice by the Sea, 1531 West Palmetto Park Rd., Boca Raton, FL 33486.
Duane "Pete" Moore
City of Grosse Pointe resident Duane "Pete" Moore, 53, passed away on Friday, Oct. 4, 2002 after suffering from cancer.
Mr. Moore graduated from Grosse Pointe High School in 1967 and received a bachelor's degree in engineering from Oakland University. He was a retired pension consultant.
He is survived by his children, Peterson and Kristine; his mother, Evelyn Richardson; his father, Dilbert Moore; his brother, Wendell Moore; his sister, Janice Brandenberger; and many longtime friends.
Vera V. Pasny
Former longtime Grosse Pointe Park resident Vera V. Pasny, 90, passed away on Sunday, Oct. 6, 2002 at her home in Rochester Hills.
Born in 1912 in Pennsylvania, Mrs. Pasny was an active member of St. Clare of Montefalco Catholic Church while living in Grosse Pointe Park.
She was also involved actively with St. Andrew Catholic Church, the Older Persons Commission and was a past president of the Rochester Chapter of AARP.
Mrs. Pasny is survived by her daughter, Diane M. (Ralph) Scott; and her sister, Joan Bogedin.
She was predeceased by her husband, Ned J. Pasny.
A funeral Mass will be celebrated on Thursday, Oct. 10 at 10:30 a.m. at St. Andrew Catholic Church in Rochester.
Interment is at Holy Sepulchre cemetery in Southfield.
Arrangements were made by Pixley Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association.
Robert M. Surdam
Grosse Pointe Farms resident Robert M. Surdam, 84, passed away on Friday, Oct. 4, 2002, due to complications from cancer.
Born in 1917 in Albany, New York, Mr. Surdam attended Deerfield Academy and Williams College, graduating cum laude from Williams in 1939 with a degree in business.
He was a highly decorated serviceman in the United States Navy.
Most notable was his award for his rescue efforts to save those servicemen thrown overboard during a typhoon that attacked the Pacific Fleet in 1944.
Mr. Surdam's courage earned him the Navy-Marine Corps Medal for Heroism. By the end of the war, he had risen to the rank of lieutenant commander.
Mr. Surdam joined the National Bank of Detroit (Now Bank One) after the war, and by 1966 was elected president and a member of the board of directors.
Soon thereafter, he was promoted to chief executive officer, a position he held for 14 years until his retirement in 1982.
Mr. Surdam served as a director of several corporations, including Buhl Land Company, Bundy Corporation, Parke-Davis Company and Unisys Corporation.
He also served as chairman of the Detroit Medical Center and the United Foundation; vice president of the United Way Community Services; trustee of the Matilda R. Wilson Fund and the McGregor Fund; director of the Detroit Executive Services Corps, the Detroit Renaissance and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
He also actively worked with the Detroit Economic Growth Corporation and the Economic Alliance for Michigan.
Mr. Surdam was a member of the Grosse Pointe Club, the Detroit Club, Country Club of Detroit, the Little Harbor Club, the Jupiter Island Club, Rolling Rock Club and Yondotega Club.
He also enjoyed hunting, sailing and golf.
He is survived by his wife, Mary Buhl; his sons, Peter Buhl (Lynda Corcoran) Surdam and Robert McClellan (Patricia Ellis) Surdam Jr.; his daughter, Carol Surdam (Thomas M.) Smith; five grandchildren; and two sisters.
A funeral service was held on Monday, Oct. 7 at Christ Church, Grosse Pointe.
Arrangements were made by the Groesbeck Chapel of the William R. Hamilton Co.
Memorial contributions may be made to Williams College in Massachusettes, Little Traverse Conservancy in Harbor Springs or Harper Hospital in Detroit.
Mary Savage Taylor
Longtime Grosse Pointe Farms resident Mary Savage Taylor, 88, passed away at her home on Sunday, Aug. 25, 2002.
Born in Detroit in 1913, Mrs. Taylor graduated from the Academy of the Sacred Heart and the University of Michigan.
She was a long-term parishioner of St. Paul Catholic Church, a lifetime member of the League of Catholic Women and a member of the Country Club of Detroit.
Mrs. Taylor also had an interest in art, literature and genealogy.
She is survived by her son, Mark L. of Cedar City, Utah; her grandson, Ryan M.; her brother, Philip J. (Justine B.) Savage Jr. of Bloomfield Hills; and eight nephews and nieces.
She was predeceased by her husband, Robert F.; and her daughter, Catherine F.
A funeral Mass of the Resurrection was celebrated on Thursday, Aug. 29 at St. Paul Catholic Church.
Entombment is in the St. Paul Church Columbarium.
Arrangements were made by Verheyden Funeral Home, Grosse Pointe Park.
Memorial contributions may be made to the St. Paul Educational Trust, 157 Lake Shore Rd., Grosse Pointe Farms, MI 48236 or the Capuchin Soup Kitchen, 1820 Mt. Elliott Ave., Detroit, MI 48207.
Beulah Marie York
Former Grosse Pointe resident Beulah Marie York, 94, of Bargersville, Ind., passed away on Tuesday, Oct. 1, 2002.
Born in Fowler, Ind., Mrs. York graduated from Southeastern High School in Detroit.
She was a librarian for the Grosse Pointe Public Library for 30 years, having retired in 1975.
Mrs. York attended St. Andrews Anglican Church and was a member of the Mother Church of Christ, Scientist in Boston, Union Village OES #587 and Samuel Bryan DAR Chapter Southport, Ind.
She is survived by her daughter, Kathryn York Baker of Bargersville; two grandsons, Timothy V. Baker of Franklin, Ind. and William D. Baker of Bargersville; and six great-grandchildren.
She was predeceased by her husband, Lawrence Russell York; and her brother, Lowell Kenneth Johnson.
A funeral service was held on Friday, Oct. 4 in Indiana. Interment is at Mt. Pleasant cemetery in Indiana. Arrangements were made by Vandivier-Tudor Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions may be made to Greenwood Christian School Scholarship Fund, 512 S. Madison Ave., Greenwood, IN 46143.
Chuck Bachrach
Grosse Pointe resident Chuck Bachrach, 89, died Saturday, Oct. 6, 2001, at the St. John Senior Community in Detroit.
Mr. Bachrach was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and spent much of his early life in Los Angeles, Calif.
During World War II, he served as a captain in the United States Army. He was first stationed in England then transferred to Le Mans, France, in 1944. There he met his bride, Guillemette Lory. They were married
in Feb. 1946 at the Church of St. Vincent de Paul in New York City.
He began his career with the Chicago Tribune and later worked as a radio commentator in Des Moines, Iowa, where he befriended sports broadcaster Ronald Reagan.
In 1947, Mr. Bachrach returned to Des Moines to work with inventor Len Neufeld. Bachrach financed and founded the Delman Company, the first producer of a practical windshield washer system for automobiles. To be closer to the auto industry, he moved with the company to Detroit and settled in Grosse Pointe. As president and chief operating officer of Delman, Bachrach marketed to the company's principal clients Ford and Chrysler. In 1965, the Delman Company merged with McCord Corporation, where Bachrach continued to work as an international marketing consultant to the president for a number of years.
An enthusiastic equestrian, Mr. Bachrach pursued his passion for fox and stag hunting in France and at Michigan's Metamora Hunt Club. He was also a long-time member of the Grosse Pointe Hunt Club.
In addition, Bachrach was a member of the American Legion and the Grosse Pointe Senior Men's Club.
Mr. Bachrach is survived by his daughter Annie Lory Bachrach and six grandchildren, Tiffany Dial (Chad), Darby Mistak (Marc), Brittany Griffin, Patrick Griffin, Yvelyn Schroeder and Frederique Schroeder. He is also survived by his dear companion, Ruth Wrock. He was predeceased by his daughter Janet Bachrach Schroeder.
A funeral Mass will be held at 11 a.m., on Saturday, Oct. 13, at St. Ambrose Church, 15020 Hampton Road in Grosse Pointe Park. On that same date, from 3 to 6 p.m., a private memorial will be held for close friends at the Grosse Pointe Hunt Club, 655 Cook Road in Grosse Pointe Woods.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Foundation, Karmanos Breast Cancer Institute or the Grosse Pointe Hunt Club Memorial Fund.
