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…obituaries » A ‘Shining Star’ for Act One, which intro- duces inner city kids to theater, Shelli Liebman Dorfman | Contributing Writer receiving the Luedders Award for her selfless devotion. eanor Reizen once indicated how THE ‘GRANDE DAME’ Nancy says her mom “was In 1965, the Reizens moved to she’d like to be remembered. a big believer in community Okemos, near Lansing, when “I want people to think lovingly service. She wrote scripts for Ma...…
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