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harles Tobias taught
by example, friends
and relatives say. No
matter how busy his
work load, Mr. Tobias, 48, of
Farmington Hills, who died
June 25 while celebrating his
25th wedding anniversary in
Las Vegas, always made time
for his family.
"He was involved in so
many things. He cared about
giving to the community,"
said his son, Andy, 22. "He
taught us to take initiative.
He taught us that it is better
to lead than to follow.
"He didn't believe in taking
shortcuts for anything. He
knew you had to work for
things."
Mr. Tobias, a partner at
the Detroit law firm Honig-
man Miller Schwartz and
Cohn, seldom let his busy
schedule get the better of
him. He was a member of the
Michigan Advisory Commit-
tee to the U.S. Civil Rights
Commission. He attained the
rank of Eagle Scout of the
Boy Scouts of America.
He was a member of the
board of the Michigan Amy-
otrophic Lateral Sclerosis So-
ciety and of the Oakland
County Family Services.
Mr. Tobias was active in
the Anti-Defamation League,
serving as president and on
the board of Michigan Region,
and as a national commis-
sioner. He coached his chil-
dren's little league softball
games. He was a past chair of
the Allied Jewish Campaign's
legal division.
A 1970 graduate of the
University of Michigan law
school, he also served on the
boards of Michigan State
Temple Youth and the Na-
tional Federation of Temple
Youth
"People knew different
sides of him from his many
activities," Andy Tobias said.
"He wasn't always the most
serious person. He always
was able to make a joke about
a bad situation."
Andy Tobias loves to tell
the story of his father wait-
ing in line all night to buy
tickets for the 1968 Tiger
baseball World Series. "The
things he cared about most
other than his family were
Tiger baseball and Michigan
football."
Rabbi M. Robert Syme of
Temple Israel called Mr. To-
bias "one of the crown jewels
in the firmament of Temple
Charles Tobias
Israel..Everybody loved him,
and everybody respected
him."
Rabbi Syme first met Mr.
Tobias when Charles was 8.
He was a member of Rabbi
Syme's first Hebrew class at
the temple, joining the rab-
bi's son, Daniel, Mark Shook
and Howard Shulman.
"Somehow I always associ-
ated Chuck with the biblical
story of Samuel, whose par-
ents brought their little boy
to temple and dedicated him
to the service of God," Rabbi
Syme said.
"I was certain I had four
rabbis in the making," Rabbi
Syme said, adding that two
He was a
community activist.
— his son and Mark Shook
are rabbis — and the others
achieved success in other ar-
eas.
Mr. Tobias, former presi-
dent of Temple Israel, re-
cently was nominated to the
national board of the Union
of American Hebrew Congre-
gations. He was one of the
youngest persons ever to be
nominated to that position,
Rabbi Syme said. "He is
why I believe in an afterlife,"
Rabbi Syme said. "It is in-
conceivable to me that such a
beautiful and brilliant soul
should be lost forever."
Mr. Tobias leaves his wife,
Sherri; sons, Andrew and
Joshua; daughters, Erika and
Danielle; his father, Harold,
and Ruth Tobias of West
Bloomfield; sisters and broth-
ers-in-law, Barbara and
Robert Gordon of Huntington
Woods, and Terry and
Matthew Tobias-Eisen of
University Heights, Ohio.