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MAY

Acclaimed 
former director 
of the Michigan 
Department 
of Health Dr. 
Maurice Reizen 
died at 103.
Noted scientist and 
Holocaust survivor 
Miriam Brysk died at 87.

Local prominent 
communal leader 
and former CEO 
of Farmer Jack 
supermarkets Paul 
Borman died at 89. 

Longtime 
internationally 
recognized 
professor of 
developmental 
biology at Wayne 
State University, 
Dr. Robert 
Arking, died at 
85. 

JUNE

Local lawyer and 
Holocaust survivor Vicky 
Buckfire died at 85. 

JULY

Actor James Caan, best 
known for his roles 
as Sonny Corleone in 
The Godfather and the 
dying football player in 
Brian’s Song, died at 82. 

Judy Levin Cantor, one of 
Michigan’s most prominent 
Jewish historians and 
communal leaders, who 
was honored by the state as 
a “First Lady of Michigan” 
in 1987, died at 93. 

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