In Memoriam - July 1-December 31, 2023 - HDT - 1/20/23

January 20, 2024

In Memoriam Obituaries from July 1 - December 31, 2023

Special Supplement to:

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In Memoriam Denise Ann Hallwood Bad Axe, MI 3/4/1959 - 6/28/2023

Sharon J. Kiehl

Bay City, MI 2/20/1940 - 6/29/2023

Kevin James McGeachy

Gary William Hurren Oklahoma City, OK 6/21/1947 - 6/27/2023

Port Hope, MI 3/31/1950 - 6/22/2023

Randall Joseph Roselle

Bay City, MI 4/6/1958 - 6/11/2023

David L. Zinger

Okemos, MI 12/15/1958 - 7/2/2023

Edward Dolan

Bad Axe, MI 12/12/1957 - 7/4/2023

Gaylee Armbruster-Henne

Edward Bernard Sweeney

Clara Marie Bogusz Smith

Erwin Herbert Paschke

Maurice A. Bushey

Monica Essenmacher

Ronald A. Volmering Sr.

Tracy Alan Jacobi

Naples, FL 12/30/1927 - 7/13/2023

Caseville, MI 4/16/1934 - 7/14/2023

Midlothian, VA 1/15/1947 - 7/10/2023

1952 - 2022

Cass City, MI 12/7/1942 - 7/10/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 1/11/1941 - 7/16/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 12/5/1924 - 7/8/2023

Pigeon, MI 1/31/1961 - 7/18/2023

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In Memoriam Marianne A. Briesmeister Caseville, MI 5/30/1944 - 7/18/2023

Gerald A. Kowaleski Port Hope, MI 3/31/1937 - 7/14/2023

James “Jim” Zmich Ubly, MI 4/14/1941 - 7/26/2023

Leo Walter Feebish Cass City, MI 11/8/1930 - 7/25/2023

MODERN

Maxine “Mackay” Hammock Columbia City, IN 4/4/1933 - 7/24/2023

TRADITIONS

CHAMPAGNE FUNERAL CHAPEL

Aaron Dondineau Clarkston, MI 2/7/1978 - 7/26/2023

William Raymond Phillips Port Austin, MI 5/26/1964 - 7/27/2023

Our professional staff endeavors to be helpful to the community, to provide fine facilities, to be fair and skilled in its practice of the profession, to be accessible to everyone, and to be a good neighbor and corporate citizen. The funeral home’s motto is “Modern Traditions;” funeral traditions are steeped in ritual and time honored customs.

We wish to honor, respect, and perpetuate those customs, but also make adaptations to ensure they are relevant and meaningful to our customers.

If we can successfully deliver on these efforts, then we will be able to honor the lives of those who have died and ease the burden on those who mourn.

989-453-2324 • 7356 West Michigan Ave • Pigeon James M. Childs, Owner/Funeral Director Lori Ann (Weiss) Pedrotte 4/23/1970 - 7/27/2023

Howard Delnor Burk Jr. Bad Axe, MI 1/30/1937 - 7/29/2023

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In Memoriam

Dr. Frederick C. Gerhardt DDS

Timothy William O’Neil

Brian David Woodward

Sharon M. Murawski

Marsha Annette Ludlow

Daniel W. Duggan

Ronald Vere Geiger

Howard Ralph Nugent II

Olave C. Bukoski

Laurene M. Molinaro

Harbor Beach, MI 6/19/1932 - 7/29/2023

8/26/1953 - 8/3/2023

4/4/1948 - 7/31/2023

Cass City, MI 12/24/1928 - 8/6/2023

Detroit, MI 6/5/1959 - 7/31/2023

Whittler, AK 6/4/1944 - 8/3/2023

8/2/2023

Ubly, MI 11/1/1931 - 8/8/2023

Evans, MI 9/13/1959 - 8/5/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 10/6/1940 - 7/15/2023

“You gave me a forever within the numbered days…” - John Green

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In Memoriam Gail Marie Lombardo

Kathleen Mary Creuger

Mary Jane (Janie) Martinez

Mark Junior Kaliszewski

Cheryl Marie (Awrey) LaPine

Doris Ilene Seley

Patricia (Moran) Swanson Dearborn Heights, MI 8/13/2023

Kenneth Scoviac

Harbor Beach, MI 3/17/1950 - 8/15/2023

Clifford Roggenbuck

Daniel Yaroch

Judy Ann Elsinger

Harvey LeRoy Schuette

Lee “Shiney” Truemner

Adam J. Schumacher

Ronald James Badgley

Pigeon, MI 9/14/1949 - 8/9/2023

Elkton, MI 6/9/1946 - 8/16/2023

Dallas, TX 8/17/1948 - 8/1/2023

1/25/1956 - 8/11/2023

Pigeon, MI 4/4/1932 - 8/18/2023

Bad Axe, MI 6/9/1945 - 8/12/2023

Pigeon, MI 12/30/1943 - 8/20/2023

Port Austin, MI 6/24/1935 - 8/11/2023

1945

Bad Axe, MI 8/22/1982 - 8/17/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 5/6/1952 - 8/14/2023

Filton, MI 8/18/2023

Cass City, MI 6/12/1945 - 8/18/2023

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In Memoriam Darrell E. Connell

Marianne (Shattry) Gehring

Edward Robert Ulrich Pigeon, MI 9/16/1928 - 8/23/2023

Danny J. May

Port Hope, MI 6/6/1959 - 8/26/2023

Patricia Ann Grigg

Carol Ann VanErp

Margaret Bouvrette

Joan Marie Wrubel

Clarence Yaroch

Daniel Francis Quinn

Harbor Beach, MI 3/25/1942 - 8/18/2023

Bad Axe, MI 8/18/1938 - 8/29/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 11/8/1934 - 8/19/2023

Bad Axe, MI 11/21/1930 - 9/1/2023

Filton, MI 3/12/1946 - 9/4/2023

Hume Twp., MI 3/16/1937 - 9/1/2023

Tinley Park, IL 10/16/1947 - 8/27/2023

Caseville, MI 2/12/1955 - 9/3/2023

“There is no foot too small, that it cannot leave an imprint on this world.” - Unknown

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In Memoriam Robert “Bob” Charles Buckley 9/4/2023

Keith M. Kautz

Port Hope, MI 11/15/1935 - 8/29/2023

Lucille Eva Burdick

Jill Margaret Champagne Elkton, MI 11/16/1957 - 9/5/2023

Bad Axe, MI 1/13/1947 - 9/2/2023

Eileen Rievert

Mae Ann Orth

Mary B. Peruski

Anastasia “Ann” L. Parks

Sue Schember

Gagetown, MI 7/13/1954 - 9/11/2023

Pigeon, MI 8/31/1935 - 9/13/2023

Adrian, MI 6/21/1944 - 8/28/2023

Cass City, MI 5/15/1939 - 9/18/2023

Port Austin, MI 1/15/1940 - 9/17/2023

Janice Kociba

Bad Axe, MI 4/6/1953 - 9/18/2023

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In Memoriam Herbert Dale Wells

Robert L. Tschirhart

Mary Ann Holdwick

Herbert Roggenbuck

Yvonne M. Burley

Mark Allen Nieschulz

Olga Lydia Sophia Renn

Veva Irene Rich

Lillian Drake

James C. Gerstenschlager

Lake Odessa, MI 12/22/1962 - 9/1/2023

Pigeon, MI 12/29/1947 - 9/28/2023

Bad Axe, MI 6/14/1947 - 9/18/2023

Pigeon, MI 3/30/1922 - 9/28/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 2/23/1948

Zephryhills, FL 7/13/1936 - 9/29/2023

12/16/1951 - 9/25/2023

Kinde, MI 7/4/1933 - 10/2/2023

Tucson, AZ 7/29/1941 - 9/5/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 7/7/1947 - 9/29/2023

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In Memoriam Rosalyn L. Snider

Georgeana Agness Guza Bad Axe, MI 2/24/1933 - 10/6/2023

9/25/1960 - 10/7/2023

Tina Becking

Clema Kay Przemytski

Joan H. (Joanie) Koroleski

Betty Rae Townley

William Thomas Campbell Jr.

Kenneth Wolschlager

Josephine Greene

Thelma C. Schubring

Middleville, MI 5/20/1953 - 10/3/2023

Bad Axe, MI 7/16/1930 - 10/2/2023

Port Austin, MI 1/10/1947 - 10/2/2023

Bad Axe, MI 9/23/1930 - 10/3/2023

9/28/1951 - 10/8/2023

Bad Axe, MI 6/7/1925 - 10/2/2023

Kinde, MI 9/28/1932 - 10/5/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 3/6/1924 - 10/3/2023

i carry your heart. i carry it in my heart.

- e.e. cummings

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In Memoriam Michael J. Ritter

Doris Rose Lemke

Charles Lewis Esch

Michael Garascia

Frederick J. “Ted” Powell

Nancy Lucille Day

George J. Romzek

Susan Gertrude Walsh Brown

Dorothy E. Henne

Glenn (Gooch) William Knoblock

Kinde, MI 8/31/1962 - 10/8/2023

Bad Axe, MI 11/5/1936 - 10/16/2023

9/4/1947 - 10/8/2023

Deckerville, MI 6/24/1938 - 10/17/2023

Elkton, MI 6/1/1952 - 10/11/2023

LaMesa, CA 11/4/1933 - 10/15/2023

Lake Orion, MI 2/6/1960 - 10/9/2023

Bay Port, MI 5/30/1929 - 10/21/2023

Cass City, MI 10/23/1948 - 10/14/2023

Bad Axe, MI 5/4/1965 - 10/16/2023

“Those we love never truly leave us.

There are things that death cannot touch.”

- Jack Thoorne

In Memoriam

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Lillian C. Kubacki

Mary E. Michalski

William James Roggenbuck

Edwin Henry Krieg Jr.

Joyce M. Headlee

Dahn Smith

Vernon R. Beachy

RoseAnn Remer

John Paul Peter

Clayton D. “Clayt” Esch

Ubly, MI 2/18/1936 - 10/23/2023

Port Austin, MI 12/3/1956 - 10/27/2023

Pigeon, MI 2/5/1943 - 10/27/2023

Bad Axe, MI 1/14/1928 - 11/4/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 4/11/1928 - 10/29/2023

Caseville, MI 9/8/1940 - 11/6/2023

Flat Rock, AL 11/1/2023

Port Charlotte, FL 1/29/1936 - 10/23/2023

Bad Axe, MI 4/29/1936 - 11/3/2023

Pigeon, MI 10/6/1925 - 11/9/2023

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In Memoriam Jardine Zurek

Darlene (Detgren) Shuart

Linda Elaine Keefer

Anthony P. Vigari Sr.

Andrew C. Engler

Theodore Timothy Jayson

James C. McKnight

Richard “Dick” Claude Kobylski

Nancy Patricia Aymen

Gregg Nieten Sr.

Bad Axe, MI 2/14/1929 - 11/9/2023

Port Hope, MI 4/22/1954 - 11/13/2023

Bad Axe, MI 2/22/1933 - 6/19/2023

Bad Axe, MI 9/1/1933 - 11/20/2023

Pigeon, MI 2/6/1953 - 11/11/2023

White Cloud, MI 10/15/1949 - 10/19/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 1/18/1973 - 11/11/2023

Bad Axe, MI 8/11/1930 - 11/25/2023

Bad Axe, MI 1/5/1962

Bad Axe, MI 10/19/1959 - 11/20/2023

“One day we will remember how lucky we were to have known their love, with wonder, not grief.” - Elizabeth Postle

In Memoriam Charlene M. Knoblock

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Romeo, MI 7/20/1956 - 11/23/2023

Linda Booth

Port Austin, MI 7/21/1945 - 11/23/2023

Beverly J. Lasceski Bad Axe, MI 5/9/1944 - 11/22/2023

Karen M. Scott

Bad Axe, MI 8/27/1953 - 11/25/2023

Roy W. Collings II

Nadene Ellen Besonen

Daniel E. Guigar

Alvin (Al) James Seurynck

Eugene W. Smalley

Beatrice Irene Osantoski

Port Austin, MI 1/17/1947 - 11/19/2023

Bad Axe, MI 1/31/1943 - 11/27/2023

Bay City, MI 1/23/1939 - 11/30/2023

Ubly, MI 11/27/1931 - 12/1/2023

Bad Axe, MI 6/2/1941 - 11/27/2023

Bad Axe, MI 3/20/1930 - 12/2/2023

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In Memoriam Ann Arbor, MI 12/3/2023

Earl A. Reinke

Port Hope, MI 8/8/1949 - 12/5/2023

Robert Charles Bugenski Bay City, MI 12/31/1941 - 12/5/2023

Arlene E. Zelz

Port Hope, MI 2/13/1944 - 12/5/2023

Ann Marie Herford

Brian Daniel Clancy

Kathleen Ann Donahue

Ann Marie (Tice) Drews

Martha Ann Szymarek

Shirley Ann Heleski

Marjorie Ann Montgomery

Richard G. Gorney

Carole Ann (Roberts) Pleiness

Michele Lynn Grekowicz

Gary Lee “Peanuts” Blackstock Sr.

7/13/1957 - 12/3/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 5/12/1946 - 12/11/2023

Port Austin, MI 4/14/1964 - 12/7/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 10/20/1938 - 12/11/2023

Caseville, MI 11/17/1970 - 12/7/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 3/14/1947 - 12/13/2023

Kinde, MI 7/30/1946 - 12/10/2023

Harbor Beach, MI 2/10/1965 - 12/15/2023

Arnold, CA 4/1/1957 - 11/30/2023

Grosse Point Woods, MI 2/5/1935 - 12/10/2023

Alan R. Heckroth

7/11/1951 - 12/16/2023

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In Memoriam Thomas Wayne Stilson Sr. Ubly, MI 10/20/1953 - 12/21/2023

Patricia M. Drews Novi, MI 11/5/1942 - 12/26/2023

Kurt A. Belew

Bad Axe, MI 1/23/1959 - 12/22/2023

Magadline Marie Stacer Ruth, MI 2/12/1928 - 12/26/2023

Melvin Joseph Leppek Ubly, MI 11/5/1925 - 12/23/2023

Wayne L. Church Filton, MI 6/7/1938 - 12/23/2023

Erwin H. Schave

Port Hope, MI 1/14/1924 - 12/23/2023

“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.”

- Helen Keller

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