Obituaries

J.C. Briggs

The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, September 7, 2022, at the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. His family will receive relatives and friends beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday at the funeral home.

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Al Brotherton

Alvin “Al” Brotherton

The Masonic funeral service will be held at 10:00 a.m. Thursday, September 1, 2022, at the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel, with interment to follow in Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens.  His family will receive friends at the funeral home from 9:00 a.m. until service time on Thursday.  In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Shriners Hospital for Children.

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Larry Bush, Laurence Bush

Laurence E. “Larry” Bush

The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, September 9, 2022, at Emanuel First Evangelical Lutheran Church. Interment with military honors will follow in Deepdale Memorial Gardens. His family will receive friends at the church from 10:00 until service time on Friday (September 9). In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Emanuel First Evangelical Lutheran Church, or to the charity of one’s choice in memory of Laurence Bush.

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Eleanor Ann Doersam

Funeral service: 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, August 25, 2022, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Lansing. Her family will receive friends at the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday, and beginning at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday at the church. Entombment will take place in Oakwood Memorial Mausoleum in Saginaw on Friday, August 26, 2022. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church or to Eastern High School.

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Catherine Ellen McLeod

A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, August 27, 2022, at Holt United Methodist Church. A visitation will begin one hour prior to the service. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Capital Area Humane Society.

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Claudia Hamlin

Claudia W. Hamlin

The funeral service will be held at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, September 29, 2022, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.  Burial will take place in Pine Plains Cemetery in Clay, New York, in Monday, October 3, 2022.  In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, in memory of Claudia Hamlin.

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Marilyn J. Doerr

The funeral service will be held 1:00 p.m. Wednesday, August 10, 2022, at the Estes-Leadley Holt/Delhi Chapel. Visitation will be Wednesday, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorial donations may be made to Sparrow Hospice Services.

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Gail Eugene Rollins

A memorial visitation will be held at the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel on Sunday, August 14, 2022, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. Memorial contributions may be made to Sparrow Home Hospice or the Capital Area Humane Society.

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Gayle Francis Cain

The funeral service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Monday, August 8, 2022, at Holt Christian Church. Interment will follow in Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens, Dimondale. Her family will receive relatives and friends from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. on Saturday, at the Estes-Leadley Holt/Delhi Chapel. Memorial contributions may be made to Holt Christian Church.

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Leslie Ann Sulskis

Friends and family are invited to gather for an afternoon of reminiscences at the Bengel Wildlife Center (Michigan Wildlife Conservancy, 6380 Drumheller Rd., Bath, MI) from 1-4 p.m. on Saturday, November 19, 2022. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the National Prion Disease Pathology Surveillance Center or to the Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (CJD) Foundation, Inc.

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Michelle A. Benko

A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, July 30, 2022, at the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel. There will be a memorial visitation held 4:00-7:00 p.m. Friday and also one hour prior to the memorial service, all at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to American Cancer Society or The Capital Area Humane Society.

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SuEllyn Nina Gilreath

Visitation will be from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. Friday, July 29, 2022, at the Estes-Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel. Her family will share memories and stories at 2:30 p.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Meals on Wheels.

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Dorothy L. Joseph

There will be no services, in lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to Pilgrim Congregational Church, 125 S. Pennsylvania Ave., Lansing, MI, 48912.

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Mary Lou Howe

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, July 23, 2022, at the Estes-Leadley Holt/Delhi Chapel, 2121 N. Cedar St. in Holt.  Interment will follow at Deepdale Memorial Gardens.  The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Saturday from 10:00 a.m. until service time at 11:00 a.m. Those who wish may make memorial contributions, in loving memory of Mary Lou, to either the American Lung Association or to WKAR.org

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