soul

of blessed memory

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A private memorial service will
be held in the spring to be attend-
ed by close friends and relatives.
Contributions may be made to the
University of Michigan Cancer Center
Helping Hands Fund or the University
Musical Society. For the Helping
Hands Fund, checks may be made
payable to University of Michigan and
sent to Michigan Medicine Office of
Development, 1000 Oakbrook Drive,
Suite 100, Ann Arbor, MI 48104, (734)
764-6777. For the University Musical
Society, forward donations to the
University Musical Society, Attention:
Development Office, 881 N. University,
Ann Arbor, MI 48109, (734) 764- 8489.

Zogut

SOL ZOGUT, 96, of
West Bloomfield, died
Dec. 29, 2017.
He is survived by
his daughter and
son-in-law, Diane R.
Zogut and Robert Eliot
Shapiro; many loving

nieces, nephews, other family members
and friends.
Mr. Zogut was the beloved husband
of the late Ruthe Zogut; the father of
the late Jacqueline Zogut; the brother of
the late Benjamin Zogut, the late Eileen
Sage, the late Zelda Terry, the late Rose
Goodman, the late Mary Sherman and
the late Rita Bachner.
Interment took place at Adat
Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery in
Livonia. Contributions may be made
to Jewish Senior Life or Gilda’s Club.
Arrangements by Dorfman Chapel.

CORRECTION

The obituary for Nelson Dembs (Dec.
28) should have indicated he was the
dear brother of the late Manny (the late
Mickey) Dembs, the late Sol (the late
Rose) Dembs and the late Phil (the late
Ann) Dembs.

Oncologist Dies

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Born in Lithuania in 1927,
enowned oncologist
he was separated from his
and longtime Karmanos
family during World War
Cancer Institute leader
II after Soviet occupation
Vainutis Vaitkevicius, M.D.,
in the early 1940s. He was
known as Dr. Vee, has died. He
taken in by his physician
was 90. Vaitkevicius died at
grandfather, who was later
the Omega House Hospice in
executed by Nazis for hiding
Houghton on Dec. 24, 2017.
Dr. Vaitkevicius
Jewish children, and later his
His career in medicine
physician aunt. As Lithuania
spanned more than six decades
further succumbed to occu-
in Detroit, including leadership
pation, in 1944, Dr. Vee fled
posts at the Detroit Medical
to a refugee camp in Germany, where
Center, Harper Grace Hospital and
he sustained an injury.
Karmanos as well as serving on the
Vaitkevicius graduated from
faculty at Wayne State University.
Johann-Wolfgang-Goethe-Universitaet
He served on the National Cancer
Advisory Board after being appointed Frankfurt Medical School in 1951 and,
with knowing little English, moved
by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
Vaitkevicius joined the Detroit
to Detroit for post-graduate training.
He served in the Korean War before
Institute for Cancer Research early
being introduced to the city’s medi-
in his career. He was named presi-
cal community through friends and
dent of the institute in 1991 and
residencies at Detroit Grace Hospital
became president emeritus in 2002.
and Detroit Receiving Hospital, and a
Vaitkevicius played a pivotal role in
fellowship at the Detroit Institute for
transitioning it to the Barbara Ann
Cancer Research. •
Karmanos Cancer Institute in 1995.

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