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medicine and was in the top
6% of his medical school class.
He also did medical research.
An avid reader, a Jeopardy
wiz, he was also an avid sports
fan, including the Detroit
Tigers; he also loved tennis;
Tom Brady was his favorite
football player. He played
hockey with the Southfield
Hockey program.
A proud Jew, he received his
bar mitzvah at Congregation
Shaarey Zedek and then went
to Israel with his family to cel-
ebrate.
Michael was a brilliant,
sweet, kind, caring and very
courageous individual; he
always did his best.
Mr. Toft was the beloved
son of Marlene Soverinsky
Toft (an elementary school
teacher) and Dr. Bernard Toft
(a pediatric allergist); loving
brother of Kenneth Mitchell
(Brittany) Toft and Alyssa
Joyce Toft; dear uncle of Aaron
and Franklin Toft; best friend
of Joel Kaufman; cherished
nephew of Dr. Louis (Sally)
Soverinsky, Herbert (Marsha)
Bishko of Ramat Aviv, Israel,
Douglas (Gail) Lyon; cousin of
Stephen and Linda Jacobson,
Mark and Lisa Soverinsky,
Jerry and Jana Soverinsky, and
Randy and Brenda Soverins,
Bracha Goslin, Debbie Goslin,
Michael Goslin, Shirli Bishko
(and family) and Ronit Bishko
(with son, Mordechai and
daughter, Esther) of Ramat,
Aviv, Erin Lyon and Kyla Lyon
(and her two sons); second
cousin of Arica Jacobson (fian-
cé, Ryan Levine), Rachel (Joel)
Goldstein (and their children,
Yahra and Gedalia), Joshua
Jacobson, Marni Jacobson,
Rebecca, Mara and Ellie
Soverinsky, Melanie, Michael
and Nathan Soverinsky, Max
Soverinsky.
He was the grandson of the
late Aaron and the late Rayetta
Soverinsky, and the late
Harry and the late Clara Toft;
nephew of the late Marilyn
Soverinsky, late Isaac (late
Beatrice) Goslin.
Contributions may be
made to American Diabetes
Association for research to find
a cure for Type 2 Diabetes,
20700 Civic Center Drive, Suite
100, Southfield, MI 48076.
A family graveside service
was held at Clover Hill Park
Cemetery in Birmingham.
Arrangements by Hebrew
Memorial Chapel.
MIRIAM HOLLANDER
WEBERMAN, 95, of
Farmington Hills, passed away
on Feb. 19, 2021.
She was born in Toledo,
Ohio, on Oct. 29, 1925. After
moving to New York, N.Y. as a
child, Miriam and her family
moved to Detroit in 1942.
She graduated from Central
High School and received a
B.A. and M.A. from Wayne
State University, working her
way through college while
employed by the Packard
Motor Car Co. and at the
Wayne State library.
Miriam married her beloved
soulmate Harry Weberman
on Oct. 31, 1948, and she had
three children. Harry passed
away in 2015 at age 93.
Miriam was an esteemed
and proud public educator.
While raising their three
children, she first taught sec-
ular subjects at a yeshivah
in Detroit, then became a
classroom and critic teacher
in Detroit, a reading specialist
in Warren and then principal
of Walled Lake Elementary
School, from which she retired
in 1991. She also instructed
teachers to teach reading at
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