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A Love Cut Short

inspired me."
In his wife's memory, and to help
others battling debilitating diseases,
Mark Kahn is working with Henry
hey had only six years
Ford Health System to establish the
together — two years as
Gayle Halperin Kahn Center for
friends and four years as
Complementary and Integrative
a married couple. Yet, in
Medicine.. As he envi-
that brief time, Mark and
sions the center, it will
Gayle Kahn forged a lov-
include research, coun-
ing, supportive relation-
seling and non-invasive
ship as strong as any that
treatments such as vita-
lasted 10 times as long.
mins, nutrients and
Gayle Halperin Kahn,
massage. These treat-
41, of Bloomfield Hills,
ments would support
died of brain cancer Feb.
chemotherapy and tra-
22, with her husband at
ditional medicine
her side.
rather than replace
"They were two people
them, Kahn said.
who truly believed they
"Obviously, I'm
were meant to belong to
inspired by Gayle's
one another, to reach out
spirit within me," he
across the darkness; to
Gayle Ha 1perin Kahn
said.
hold hands in slippery
Mrs.. Kahn was a
places; to laugh together
member
of Adat
in sunshine," said Rabbi
Shalom Synagogue and
Irwin Groner of Congregation
Congregation Shaarey Zedek, and
Shaarey Zedek.
both Rabbi Groner and Rabbi
A graduate of Birmingham's
Herbert Yoskowitz of Adat Shalom
Seaholm High School and the
spoke at her funeral.
University of Michigan, Mrs. Kahn
She is survived by her husband,
built a career as a marketing execu-
Mark Kahn; children Amanda
tive, working at Marshall Fields in
Spector and Matthew Spector;
Chicago and at W.B. Doner & Co.
stepchildren Ilyssa and Alex Kahn;
in Southfield. She was a founding
parents Jerry and Margot Halperin
member and board member of the
of Birmingham; brothers and sister-
Jewish Women's Foundation, and
in-law, Dr. Andrew Halperin of
was active with the Children's
Florida, John and Missy Halperin of
Leukemia Foundation, Women's
California; grandfather, Jack
American ORT and Planned
.
Halperin of Southfield and father-
Parenthood.
in-law and mother-in-law, D. Dan
Mrs. Kahn was a faithful friend
and Betty Kahn.
and devoted mother, said longtime
She was the loving granddaughter
friend Kathy Kohn of Huntington
of the late Bessie Halperin, the late
Woods. "She gave her children
Samuel Binkow and the late Bertha
unconditional love," Kohn said.
Binkow.
"Her primary objective was their
Contributions may be made to
lives — their hugs, their kisses,
the Gayle Halperin Kahn Center for
watching them grow up, hearing
Complementary and Integrative
about school.
Medicine, c/o Henry Ford Health
"As uncomfortable as she was, she
System, Office of Philanthropy, One
always wanted to be there for them,
Ford Place #5A, Detroit, MI 48202
attending their concerts, going to
and the Jewish Women's
their soccer games in the rain."
Foundation, c/o the Jewish
Mark Kahn remembers his wife as
Federation of Metropolitan Detroit,
loving and playful. "We were
blessed with only a few years togeth- 6735 Telegraph Road, Bloomfield
Hills, MI 48301.
• er," he said, "but we squeezed in a
Interment was at Clover Hill Park
lifetime of memories and adven-
Cemetery. Arrangements by Ira
tures. Hopefully, her memory will
Kaufman Chapel.
inspire our children as she has

....WKAA, •

DIANA LIEBERMAN
Copy Editor/Education Writer

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