George Lewis Jr. of Dexter, age 82, peacefully left the loving arms of his family at his Dexter home on May 18, 2022.
George was born on Feb. 29, 1940 to George and Nellie (Kuzyk) Lewis in Detroit.
He was raised in Dearborn where he graduated from Fordson High School in 1958. He attended Wayne State University on a full music scholarship. George was a talented drummer and played with various bands throughout the 1960’s.
George fell in love with and married Mary Louise Hersman in September of 1960, and they had three children before Mary Lou’s untimely death at the age of 34. Undaunted, George married Barbara Cooper in 1975 and Jacquelyn Bailey in 1987. Both marriages ended in divorce, but George cherished the good relationship he had with his stepchildren.
George’s career in the auto industry spanned decades. He worked his way up to engineering supervisor at the Ford Ypsilanti Plant, and in 1991 he moved to Budapest, Hungary to open a parts manufacturing plant in Szekeshfehervar, Hungary. His team made distributerless ignition coils. George was very excited and proud of his work there. Whilst in Hungary, George met the love of his life, Eszter Cukor, who also worked for Ford, and they were married in 1995 in Budapest.
A celebration of life for George will take place Friday evening June 3, 2022 at Cole Funeral Chapel in Chelsea from 5:30-7:30 p.m.
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