Mary Ann Daane
of Chelsea, Michigan, formerly of Birmingham and Ann Arbor, age 93, passed away on Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at the Chelsea Retirement Community. She was born in Royal Oak, Michigan, the daughter of Thomas Marion and Alice (Werfel) Pryor.
Mary Ann graduated from the University of Michigan with a Master of Social Work degree. Following graduation, she worked in a private practice as a clinical social worker. In 1979, she was elected the first President of the University of Michigan School of Social Work Alumni Association and continued to serve on its board of governors for many years. She was a gourmet cook and consummate entertainer and an invitation to a dinner party at her dinner table was always a hot ticket. In part because of her cooking talents, she was selected as co-chair of the Bravo! Cookbook project, an ambitious undertaking which was a very successful fundraiser for the University’s Musical Society. When the weather warmed continuing through snowfall, she could be found in her beautiful perennial garden which was almost an acre and was featured on the Ann Arbor Garden Walk, a tradition in its now thirty-second year.
of Chelsea, Michigan, formerly of Springport, Sandusky, and Oscoda, a
of Ann Arbor, Michigan, formerly of Chelsea, age 83, passed away Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at Michigan Medicine. She was born April 5, 1941, in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Alexander “Larry” & Margaret (Schiemann) McKinnon.