Anita Parks, age 82, was born April 22, 1940, in Halstead, Kansas, the third of six children of Anthon and Gladys (Walters) Sundbye. She died on Monday, August 1, 2022, at St. Joseph Mercy Chelsea, from complications of Parkinson’s Disease. Anita graduated from Halstead High School in 1958, then attended Southwestern College (KS) for two years. She completed her BA in education at Wichita State University in 1963, and her MA in educational leadership from Eastern Michigan University in 1977.
She was married to John W. “Bill” Todd from 1959, until they divorced in 1977. They had one son, Corbin. In 1980, she married Harry Parks. With her son, Corbin Todd, and Harry’s two sons, Matthew and Benjamin Parks, they became a blended family of five.
Douglas Charles Hartley was born on October 12, 1949, to Harold W. Hartley and his wife, Florine (‘nee Kinne), in Monroe, Michigan. He was received into God’s Kingdom of grace through Holy Baptism on November 13, 1949, at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Monroe by Pastor Adalbert Schultz. He was also confirmed in the Christian faith at St. Paul’s by Pastor Lawence Nolte.
Following high school graduation from Michigan Lutheran Seminary, our Wels Preparatory High School in Saginaw, he attended and graduated from Northwestern College in Watertown, Wisconsin, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree. He attended Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary in Mequon, serving one year as a vicar at St. Paul’s in Ottawa, Canada, graduating with a Masters of Divinity degree. Upon graduation in 1975, he was ordained and installed as pastor of New Hope Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska. He also served Redeemer of Merritt Island, Florida, Amazing Grace of Taylor, Michigan, and spent the final 20 years of his full-time ministerial service at Salem Lutheran of Ann Arbor, Michigan.
of Grass Lake, MI, formerly of Ann Arbor, age 90, died Sunday, July 3, 2022, in Jackson, Michigan. She was born March 9, 1932, in Jackson, Kentucky, the daughter of Arthur & Maud (Noble) Haddix and grew up in Lost Creek, Kentucky. Dove was a Realtor in Ann Arbor for many years before becoming the Director of Marketing & Sales at the Bell Tower Hotel and Campus Inn. She also worked for Washtenaw County in the Purchasing Department. Her greatest achievement was being a wife and mother to her loving family. Together the family traveled all over the United States, Canada and Europe. She was a huge fan of Michigan football; friend to coaches and players alike.
Theodore Fairbank Beals, MS, MD of Waterloo Township, Michigan, Age 87, died Thursday, August 19, 2021 at his home with family at his side. He was born May 29, 1934, in Detroit, Michigan, the son of Albert Tyler and Dorothy Alice (Van Zwaluwenburg) Beals. Ted graduated from Rosemead High School in Rosemead, CA, in 1952 and received his BS (1956), MS (1957), and MD (1966) from the University of Michigan. He specialized in pathology, virology, and electron microscopy. On June 13, 1955, Ted married Margaret (Peggy) Catherine Dillinger in the Douglas Memorial Chapel in Ann Arbor, and she survives. He is also survived by his children, Sandra Beals of Webster Township, MI, James Beals (Kelli Sullivan) of Ann Arbor, MI, Lynn Beals-Becker of Webster Township, MI, and John Beals of Ann Arbor, MI; his grandchildren, Andrea (Moreno-Beals) (Yoni) Paz, Brian Moreno, Michael Moreno, William Becker, Josh (Miranda) McVety; and his siblings, Katherine (Beals) Brenner and Eric (Kathleen) Beals, as well as many nieces and nephews.
Dr. David Gill Logan passed away peacefully Thursday, July 7, 2022, at his home on North Lake. He was born February 15,1935 in Ann Arbor, the son of Albert James and Frances Treat (Gill) Logan.
David graduated from University High School in Ann Arbor, MI in 1953. He then attended Oberlin College in Ohio, graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1957. From 1957 to 1961, he attended Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) Medical School graduating Alpha Omega Alpha in 1961. David served in the Army Medical Corps in Tokyo, Japan from 1963-1966, where he received the US Armed Forces Commendation Medal. On return to the US, he moved his young family to Cleveland, where he entered a residency in psychiatry at CWRU later joining the faculty as an assistant professor of psychiatry.