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Sidney T. Cram
10/13/2002
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. today at St. Mary's Catholic Church for Lake Leelanau resident Sidney T. Cram who died Sunday. He was 64.
He was born in Detroit on Sept. 2, 1938, the son of William and Laura (Ayotte) Cram. In 1959 in Pontiac, he married Lynn P. Peters who survives.
Mr. Cram served in the U.S. Marine Corps, and enjoyed coaching little league baseball in Marquette for many years. He also enjoyed hunting and fishing when he was young.
Also surviving are his daughter Shelly (Paul) Blesh of Traverse City; sons Joseph (Robin) Cram of Michigan College. He played soccer, basketball and baseball.
Mr. Flaska was an expert at building and rebuilding computers. He enjoyed camping with his family, and especially loved Myrtle Beach, S.C. A hard-working and happy-go-lucky young man, he will be missed by family and friends.
Surviving are his parents; his brother, Matthew Lee Flaska; and maternal grandparents Versil and Jane White of Williamsburg. He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Joe and Olive Flaska.
Memorials may be directed to the Nathan J. Flaska Scholarship Fund at Leland High School, or to the Cedar Fire and Rescue Squad.
Clare Alan Willey
8/15/2002
Clare Alan Willey, the brother of Northport resident Hugh Willey, died Aug. 15 in Scottsdale, Ariz. He was 70.
Mr. Willey was born in Berkeley, California and Arizona in August.
William F. Slawson
9/22/2002
A private memorial service will be held in Northport on Oct. 13 for seasonal resident William F. Slawson, who died Sept. 22 in Sault Ste. Marie, Ont. He was 73.
Mr. Slawson was born July 4, 1929, in Ann Arbor, the son of Chester B. and Ethel Fralick Slawson. In 1956, in Salt Lake City, Utah, he married Nancy Spjut, who survives.
He graduated from the University of Georgia (Kesner) Holt. On July 17, 1947, he married the former Mary Rude, who survives.
At the age of five, he and his family moved to Traverse City and continued to move around the country times as his father was a plasterer. He graduated from Williamsburg High School in 1933. He worked in construction until joining the Army in 1940, during which he worked on airfield construction in the Philippines. Mr. Holt was taken prisoner by the Japanese in 1942, enduring the Bataan Death March and imprisoned in various Philippine prison camps before being transferred by Japanese junk to a camp at Yokaichi, Japan.
After the war, he was released from service and returned home to Traverse City. He and his wife moved to Suttons Bay in 1966 and have wintered in Southern Florida; his three sons, Timothy of Rancho Mirage, Calif., and James of Holtville, Michigan and its law school, and was a member of the Theta Chi fraternity. During World War II he served in the Army in France and Germany. After moving to Traverse City, Mr. Fredrickson practiced law for a decade before assuming management of Fredrickson Orchards in Empire Township.
Also surviving are his children, David Fredrickson of Traverse City, Donald Fredrickson of Signal Hill, Calif., and James (Cynthia) Fredrickson of Suttons Bay; and four grandchildren.
At Mr. Fredrickson's request, there will be no memorial service.
The family requests that memorials be given to Munson Medical Center.