24 | DECEMBER 29 • 2022 

OUR COMMUNITY

AUGUST

Ann (Hannah) 
Newman, notable 
local businesswoman, 
Polish-born immigrant 
from Israel, died at 94. 

Ann Arbor’s nationally 
known innovator in 
Jewish education, 
Harlene Appelman, 
died at 75. 

Prominent local 
Holocaust survivor 
and Holocaust 
educator, Michael 
Weiss, died at 97. 

SEPTEMBER

A legal giant in Metro 
Detroit’s Jewish 
Community, a promoter 
of Yiddish culture, 
former Wayne State 
University governor, 
and one of the main 
engineers of the 
“Grand Bargain” that 
allowed Detroit to exit 
Bankruptcy, Eugene 
Driker, died at 85. 

Attorney, Oakland 
County circuit 
judge and 
communal leader 
Deborah Tyner 
died at 66. 

Radio and 
Broadcasting 
legend Specs 
Howard 
(Jerry 
Liebman) 
died at 96. 

Michigan heath 
care leader, former 
president and 
CEO of Botsford, 
Gerson Cooper, 
died at 88.

American culinary 
authority and curator 
of Culinary History 
at the University of 
Michigan, Janice 
Bluestein Longone, 
died at 89. 

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