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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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