Obituaries

Robert “Bob” Daryl Dick

of Chelsea, Michigan, formerly of Ann Arbor, age 76, passed away Sunday, June 8, 2025, at Michigan Medicine in Ann Arbor. He was born October 30, 1948, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the son of Wayne Hollenger and Hazel Evelyn (Rosen) Dick.

Bob went to Juniata College in Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, earning his Bachelor of Science Degree in 1970. He did his post grad studies at the University of Miami in Florida. Bob was a Research Technician at the University of Michigan, where he was a Lab Manager in Human Genetics.

Gail Disbrow Esty

of Chelsea, Michigan, formerly of New Jersey, and Florida,

beloved wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away on Wednesday, August 13, 2025, at the age of 85. She was born August 29, 1939, in Keyport, New Jersey, the daughter of Harvey G. and Ruth (Disbrow) Hartman.

Gail was a member of Farmington/Ann Arbor Unitarian Universalist. She received her undergraduate degree from Hood College and her MSW from Wayne State University. In 1979, she was one of the first to join FirstStep, a shelter for domestic violence. She continued in private social work practice for 20 years. Gail loved to learn and explore other world religions. She and her husband loved to travel.

Michael Louis Roskowski

His was a story about a man, a motorcycle, a dog, and a kingdom created from old tires, refrigerators, rusty scrap metal and love. As a father, he taught his two children (three if you count the dog) to see the beauty in all things. With his bare hands he built a house for his family, brought cars back from the dead and cooked one heck of a flying saucer sandwich.

As a friend he would give you the shirt off his back, had he been wearing one. Whether waterskiing or fishing at the lake, hunting to put food on the table, or chopping down trees to feed the furnace in the winter, Mike was a true outdoorsman…with his dog by his side wherever he went.

Above all Mike loved riding his Harley with his wife’s arms around his waist, the wind in his hair and sunglasses on…adventure awaited around every corner.

Dr. Ross DesBrisay Margeson

Ross DesBrisay Margeson, formerly of Ann Arbor, a Chelsea resident of 10 years passed away at age 100 on August 11, 2025, after a 4 year battle with old age. He said that growing old didn’t “get difficult until 96.” He lived a long, full life and died peacefully with family around him.

Ross was born in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, on January 16, 1925, the son of Marguerite DesBrisay and Paul Eve Margeson. A graduate of John Shaw High School in 1943, he attended the University of B.C. in Vancouver from 1943 until 1945; was a graduate of the University of Michigan Dental School in 1949, and Rackam School of Graduate Studies in 1952. Ross was a member of Xi Psi Phi Dental fraternity and Omicron Kappa Upsilon Honorary Dental Fraternity. At the University Ross met the love of his life, Bette Joyce Lindemann, in Miller’s Ice Cream shop on S. University and they were married on June 17th, 1949, in Benton Harbor, Michigan, at the first Congregational Church.