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The former downtown Grand Rapids Steketee's with department store signage still visible in 2005. Steketee's / ˈstɛkɪtiːz / was a department store based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. It was begun in 1862 in Grand Rapids, and soon grew to several stores throughout southwestern Michigan. After a purchase by the Dunlaps company of ...
Carol-Jean Duvall (née Reihmer; January 10, 1926 – July 31, 2023) was an American television personality known for hosting arts and crafts -themed programming. After beginning her career on local television in Michigan, she gradually rose to national prominence. From 1994 to 2005, she hosted The Carol Duvall Show, which aired on HGTV and ...
They had three sons, Doug, Hank and Mark Meijer. [4] His grandson Peter was the U.S. representative for Michigan's 3rd congressional district from 2021 to 2023. [5] Meijer died on November 25, 2011, at the Spectrum Health System in Grand Rapids, Michigan, after suffering a stroke in his Grand Rapids home. [6]
Roger Bruce Chaffee ( / ˈtʃæfiː /; February 15, 1935 – January 27, 1967) was an American naval officer, aviator and aeronautical engineer who was a NASA astronaut in the Apollo program . Chaffee was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he became an Eagle Scout. He graduated from Central High School in 1953, and accepted a Naval Reserve ...
At the end of the Civil War in 1865, Prussian-American businessman and Union Army veteran William G. Herpolsheimer co-founded the dry goods business Voight, Herpolsheimer & Co. in Michigan City, Indiana, in partnership with Charles G. A. Voigt. In 1870, he opened a second store in Grand Rapids. He handed over management of the business to his ...
President and Mrs. Ford and their family previously chose to have the state funeral and related services conducted in three phases (Palm Desert, California; Washington, DC; Grand Rapids, Michigan), with interment in a previously selected hillside tomb next to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The services and ...
Attorney. Politician. Spouse. Mary Thompson (Webster) Ball. Children. Frank Webster Ball, Kate Webster (Ball) Powers, Flora (Ball) Hopkins, Mary Johanna, John Helvetia Ball. Parent (s) Nathaniel and Sarah (Nevins) Ball. John Ball (November 12, 1794 – February 5, 1884) was a settler, educator, lawyer and member of the Michigan State Legislature .
On April 4, 2022, Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old resident of Grand Rapids, was fatally shot by Officer Christopher Schurr of the Grand Rapids Police Department during a scuffle between the two in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. After Lyoya began to flee the scene, Schurr attempted to detain him, unsuccessfully fired a taser at Lyoya, and ...