Prudencio “Prudy” Claro Calado of Gregory, age 71, died Sunday, Feb. 19, 2023, at his home.
He was born May 4, 1951, in Ann Arbor, the son of George Celi and Leatrice Joy (Hall) Calado.
“The basic difference between an ordinary man and a warrior is that a warrior takes everything as a challenge while an ordinary man takes everything as a blessing or a curse.” ~Castañeda
Prudy graduated from Ann Arbor High School in 1969. He owned his own delivery service “P&C Delivery” in Ann Arbor, delivering tofu and other specialty foods to grocery stores and restaurants. In his younger years, Prudy was part of the Counter-Culture Revolution. This had a direct influence on the shape of his life.
Throughout his life, Prudy’s participation in cultural events, historical re-enactments, and the study of history, the world, and politics helped him develop many deeply held beliefs. With his warrior spirit and vast knowledge, he could debate anyone who believed otherwise. But, Prudy also had a fun and whimsical side that made him the life of the party.
He had a love for riding his V-Max motorcycle, Blues music, drinking beer, barbecuing, and having a good time with his many friends.
A Memorial Barbecue will be held later this year.
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Carolina Pauline Herman of Swartz Creek, age 88, beloved mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother, passed away March 4, 2023.
Carolina was born June 7, 1934 in Flint, the daughter of William and Caroline Bodek.
She married Robert C. Herman on July 6, 1956 in Angola, IN; he preceded her in death on March 7, 2007.
She was also preceded in death by her parents and by two brothers and six sisters. Many thanks to Brenda and Wilma for their special care, along with her church family at Our Savior Lutheran Church in Chelsea.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Saturday, March 11, 2023 at Sharp Funeral Homes, Miller Road Chapel, 8138 Miller Rd., Swartz Creek, with Pastor Daniel Pezzica officiating. Private burial will take place in Crestwood Memorial Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 9 a.m. until the time of service Saturday.
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Gabriel (“Gabi”) Weinreich passed away peacefully from natural causes on Feb. 22, 2023 in Chelsea at the age of 95.
Born on Feb. 12, 1928 into the vibrant, Yiddish-speaking culture of Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania), Gabi escaped with his mother Regina after the start of the Second World War. Forced to travel east, they crossed the Soviet Union, the Pacific Ocean, and the continental United States before being reunited in New York City with older brother Uriel and Gabi’s father, Yiddishist Max Weinreich. Gabi quickly learned English, and graduated from George Washington High School in Manhattan at age 16.
Gabi enjoyed the family’s gift for language: in addition to being completely at home in English and Yiddish, as an adult he could converse in German, Russian, Polish, and French, and had reading knowledge of Hebrew, Latin, ancient Greek, Italian, and Aramaic.
After high school, Gabi studied physics at Columbia University, first as an undergraduate, then as a graduate student, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1953. He met his first wife Alisa (Lourie, d. 1970) in Los Angeles in 1948, and they wed in New York in 1951. After graduate school, Gabi worked at Bell Labs until 1960 when he joined the faculty in the Physics Department at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. In 1971, he met and married his second wife, Gerane (Siemering, d. 2009), starting their blended family of five children.
Funeral services will take place at St. Clare’s Church in Ann Arbor on Saturday, April 1 at 2:30 p.m. Those unable to attend in person may contact the church for a Zoom link. There will also be a Memorial Celebration for sharing memories on Sunday, April 2 at 1 p.m. in the Maples Room at Silver Maples retirement community in Chelsea.
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