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Heartwell was the first politician to announce the death of former President Gerald R. Ford on December 26, 2006, and, along with then-President George W. Bush, then-Senator Harry Reid and then-Governor Jennifer Granholm, spoke at Ford's Grand Rapids funeral, which took place the day after Ford's Washington, D.C. funeral.
William Montague Ferry Jr. — Michigan and Utah Politician; Betty Ford — 37th First Lady of the United States [18] Gerald R. Ford — 38th President of the United States [18] Wilder D. Foster — U.S. Congressman from Michigan; mayor of Grand Rapids [16] George Heartwell — Mayor of Grand Rapids [16] [19] Paul B. Henry — U.S. Congressman [20]
Rapper shot and killed while playing billiards at a club: Murder of Laura Dickinson: Ypsilanti: 2006-12-13: Eastern Michigan University murdered in her dormitory room, scandal led to firing of university's president [18] Murder of Tara Lynn Grant: Macomb County: 2007-02-09: Murdered and dismembered by her husband [19] Murder of Jodi Parrack ...
Cause of death Year Reference(s) Glen Hepburn: 29 Two-way end Omaha Mustangs (Continental Football League) Injuries sustained during game vs Michigan Arrows: 1968 [9] Donald Sellers: 26 WR: Las Vegas Outlaws : Car crash 2001 [10] Troy Stark: 28 OL: New York/New Jersey Hitmen : Complications from surgery 2001 [11] Julian Yearwood 31 FB/LB ...
Pages in category "People from Grand Rapids, Michigan" The following 113 pages are in this category, out of 113 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Donald W. Maier, 62, was charged with first-degree murder for the July 1985 stabbing death of Benny Scruggs in Wisconsin Rapids.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
After the French established territories in Michigan, Jesuit missionaries and traders traveled down Lake Michigan and its tributaries. [7]In 1806, white trader Joseph La Framboise and his Métis wife, Madeline La Framboise, traveled by canoe from Mackinac Island and established the first trading post in West Michigan in present-day Grand Rapids on the banks of the Grand River, near what is now ...