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President and Mrs. Ford and their family previously chose to have the state funeral and related services conducted in three phases (Palm Desert, California; Washington, DC; Grand Rapids, Michigan), with interment in a previously selected hillside tomb next to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The services and ...
Roger L. Mayweather (April 24, 1961 – March 17, 2020) [2] was an American professional boxer who competed from 1981 to 1999 and later on a boxing trainer.He was a two-division world champion, having held the WBA and The Ring super featherweight titles from 1983 to 1984, and the WBC light welterweight title from 1987 to 1989.
Mr. Lyoya’s death was the latest in a series of incidents that have strained relations between residents and the Grand Rapids police. In 2017, officers searching for a middle-aged woman wanted for a stabbing instead handcuffed an 11-year-old girl at gunpoint while she was leaving a house.
A man has been charged with murder after police say he stabbed a woman to death in downtown Grand Rapids last week. ... Online Michigan Department of Corrections records show Rose was on parole at ...
Gantos – a women's specialty clothing retailer based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In late 1993, the company announced bankruptcy reorganization, closing 50 stores between 1993 and 1994, [58] and the chain announced the liquidation of its remaining 114 stores by the end of the decade, ceasing operations in 2000. [59]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...
Laura Haviland died on April 20, 1898, in Grand Rapids, Michigan, at the home of her brother, Samuel Smith. [19] She is buried next to her husband in the Raisin Valley Cemetery in Adrian, Michigan . Symbolically, at Haviland's funeral, hymns were sung by a choir of white and African-American singers, and then her casket was carried to the grave ...