Re-Elect Judge Marilyn KELLY SORROWFUL page 49 Michigan Court of Appeals — 2nd District "Judge MARILYN KELLY, who had a notable career as a trial lawyer and former president of the State Board of Education, has been an outstanding judge since going on the bench in 1988." Detroit Free Press Endorsement 10-1-94 PREFERRED • WELL QUALIFIED TOP RATED BY CIVIC SEARCHLIGHT Endorsed by Police Officers Association of Michigan, U.S. Senator Carl Levin, and Michigan State Representative Maxine Berman. Paid for by the Committee to Re-elect Judge Marilyn Kelly to the Michigan Court of Appeals, 27777 Franklin Rd. Suite 660, Southfield, MI 48034 EARLY FALL SALE 4 Days Only! Thurs., Fri., Sat., & Mon. Oct. 27th, 28th, 29th and 31st 20% to 50% OFF ENTIRE STORE WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S CLOTHING COMPLAISANT INC. 855-6566 Open Daily 10AM CROSSWINDS MALL ORCHARD LAKE RD. AT LONE PINE PREVIOUS SALES EXCLUDED ALL SALES FINAL C/) Always Ow/offer • WOLFF TANNING BEDS & HEX UNITS Tanning Sc Nails • MANICURES LU • NAILTIQUES • ARTIFICIAL NAILS Cf) LU CC LU LLJ 50 MENTION THIS AD 8t RECEIVE 20% OFF ON ALL NAIL & TANNING SERVICES (NOT VALID WITH OTHER OFFER OR COUPON) • PEDICURES • WAXING 4133 ORCHARD LAKE ROAD AT PONTIAC TRAIL WEST BLOOMRELD 810-855-3541 cemetery and over- turned grave stones. On Nov. 3, 1884, the Montefiore Lodge purchased 17,638 square feet, lots 1-33 in the northeast part of Section E, at Wood- mere Cemetery. The cost: $2,592. Meanwhile, the old cemetery was sold for $1,550 in 1884 to John Breitmeyer, a commercial florist whose greenhouses were just west of the cemetery in Ham- tramck. Remains from graves from the orig- inal cemetery were moved (at a cost of $43.20 each) to the new grounds on Nov. Verdun 21, 1884. Forty graves were moved, consisting of 12 adults, 27 children and one child from a cemetery vault. The new Free Sons of Israel cemetery at Woodmere, where it can be found today, was ded- icated in a service conducted by Rabbi D. Benjamin Eger. T here's a heavy smoke- stack, like a dark neck reaching deep into the sky, just outside the cemetery gates. To its left is a train clack-clack-clackety- clacking down the rails. Inside the grounds, a visi- tor mows the lawn around the tomb of his lost loved one. Birds gather on a small lake where children stop to leave bits of bread and broken crackers. Many of those buried at the Free Sons of Israel Cemetery died in the 1800s or the early 1900s. Who they were, who they loved, what they did, has long since been forgotten. There's a last name Smit. Born in Amsterdam in 1788. Date of death? Impossible to tell; the bottom half of the tombstone has been swal- lowed by the ground. Aupther white stone, flat into and held tightly by the earth, is completely unread- able. All that shows is two hands parted in the signature of Kohenim. Grass grows be- tween the hands. A number of the stones are covered with soot — soft, black scars that came with the nearby industry. (The Ford Rouge complex, as well as heavy and light manufactur- ing along Fort St., are close to the grounds.) There's a headstone beside a block, sharply broken at the top, that reads "Perpetual Care." One of the largest sections of the cemetery is the final resting place of Jewish immi- grants from Holland, like the Smits and the Van Baalens. "Mother" reads one Van Baalen tomb. "Father" says another. Gertrude Van Baalen's gravestone has sunk deeply into the ground. Under the pine tree there is a large marble tomb that lies heavy over the bodies of three children of Hermann and Ju- lia Jacobs: Milton, who died in 1890 when he was 21 days old, Sigfried who died in 1889, when he was 5 months, and Katie, who was 2 months old when she died in 1884. Grover Cleveland was pres- ident. And it isn't only the aged graves that are faltering here. headstone, One above a soul who died in 1978, already is sinking into the earth. "Robinson" is all that's readable on a white stone showing an illustration of two hands clasped in friendship. Samuel Convissor was a private first- class in World War I whose stone has a fading Magen David at the top. It is one of the few signs that this is a Jewish cemetery. There's little He- brew, though one stone bears an elaborate monogram of lines and curves, and the graves often carry English messages, a few words to describe a lifetime. "The World Is Better Be- cause She Lived," reads the "My father used to say, 'People don't know how hungry they are until they have to eat grass soup'" — Herman Neuman tomb of Clara Greenthal Hamburger. "Dear Husband," says the grave of Sigmund Schor. There is even a Henry Greenberg — no relation to the baseball star. The Marx family had its own section at the cemetery. Ruth Naomi is buried there; she was 16 when she died in 1918. There was a father Ben- jamin and somebody named Susie — only the first name is legible. Some of the few graves still maintained belong to the Mar- c"