Turowski Funeral Home - Neely

Mr. Hansen, who delivered his reports in a deep, gravelly voice, earned dozens of awards over a 38-year career at the radio station, including two Peabody Awards, the most prestigious national broadcast-journalism award; two medallions from Investigative Reporters and Editors, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Detroit chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. A suburban Cleveland native, Mr. Hansen earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Bowling Green State University in 1963. He then served as a radio news anchor in Akron, Ohio, before getting a job as an evening news anchor at WJR in 1967. Later that year, he became a reporter, covering the Detroit riot. In 1975, Mr. Hansen broke the story of Teamster boss Jimmy Hoffa's disappearance, according to former Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter. Other stories Mr. Hansen broke included state criminal justice system problems, open-housing law abuses, dishonest car dealers, a rigged system for assigning cases to judges in Detroit's U.S. Bankruptcy Court (the court procedures were changed completely and the two people behind it, a lawyer and his mistress, were convicted) and scrutiny of unreliable testimonies of a Livonia bite-mark expert in rape-murder cases (in almost all cases the discredited expert participated in, the charges were dropped, new trials were ordered or defendants were acquitted), according to Ashenfelter, who nominated Mr. Hansen for the Journalism Hall of Fame. "Rod was a great human being an...

Published 9:30 AM EDT Jun 25, 2019 It's not often a small business stays in the family for 100 years. Of course, it's also not often four generations of family members decide on working in the same field. But that's just the case for the Turowski family, who operates funeral homes across the western and northern suburbs of Detroit. The family is celebrating 100 years in business, once that began with Joseph F. Turowski opening a funeral home back in 1919 at 23rd and Myrtle in Detroit. It was something many Polish immigrants did when they arrived to this country, said Todd Turowski, Joseph's great-grandson and fourth generation funeral director. "In Poland, the funeral director was a dignitary," he said. "Because they were so popular and respected in Poland, they said, 'Well, I want to be the first one to be a funeral director here.' So in Detroit, there was a Polish funeral home on every corner." Today, the family operates three funeral homes bearing their name and several others recently acquired in Oakland County. ...

Mulka, 65, passed away July 9, 2019. Beloved husband of Deborah; cherished father of Hillary (Drew) Easton, TayLor and Jacob; adored brother of Leonard (Becky), Paul (Willie), Peggy (Vince) Gangi, John (Stacey), Collette (Dan) Applebaum, Trisha (Craig) Barrowcliff, Phillip (Tammie), Peter (Rebecca) and the late Stanley, Frances (Mike) Porter; companion of four “fury friends,” Apollo, Louie, Hank and the late Billy; and also survived by numerous nieces and nephews.google_color_border = 'B0C9EB';google_color_link = '164675';google_color_bg = 'FFFFFF';google_color_text = '333333';google_color_url = '2666F5';google_ui_features = 'rc:0';//-->...