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Petty, Eleanor
Eleanor G. Petty, 94, of Ann
Arbor, went to be with the
Lord on April 2, 2014.
Mrs. Petty was born on July
29, 1919 in Grass Lake, MI,
the daughter of John and
Louise Ziegler, and the
youngest of nine children.
Survivors include her sons
Mark (Carol) of Troy and Tim
(Lou) of Ocala, FL,; a daugh-
ter, Linda Leslie (former hus-
band Dale Leslie) of Ann
Arbor; six grandchildren,
Mason Petty, Marisa (Dave
Thompson) Petty, Michelle
Corrigan, Mike Petty, Drew
(Jessica Warner) Leslie and
Graham Leslie; great-grand-
children, Carson Corrigan,
Dawson Corrigan, Thad
Leslie and Natalie Leslie, and
many loving nieces and
nephews.
Mrs. Petty graduated from
Western State Teachers
College
(now
Western
Michigan University) in 1940
and received a master's
degree in education from
Eastern Michigan University
in 1960. She married
Malcolm Petty on June 20,
1942. They lived many years
in Wayne where she worked
as an elementary teacher
and later was the principal at
Wilson Elementary School in
the
Wayne-Westland
Community Schools.
She retired in 1979 at which
time she and her husband
moved to Gaylord, where
they resided for 19 years.
While living there, Mrs. Petty
was an avid downhill and
cross-country skier, golfer,
gardener, volunteer, and pro-
fessional calligrapher.
In 1998 she and her husband
moved to Ann Arbor where
she continued her passion
for calligraphy, volunteered
in
the
Alzheimer's
Association office and the
Westminster Presbyterian
Church office, and arranged
flowers at Arbor Hospice.
She and her husband were
married for 58 years before
his death in 2000.
Mrs. Petty started singing in
church while in high school,
continuing in college, then
Choral Union in Ann Arbor,
and church choirs in Wayne
and Gaylord. She also
played the piano and instilled
a love of music in her chil-
dren.
A memorial service took
place
at
Westminster
Presbyterian Church in Ann
Arbor April 22. Memorial con-
tributions may be made to
Westminster Presbyterian
Church Music Fund, 1500
Scio Church Road, Ann
Arbor, MI 48103 or to a local
area hospice agency. Visit
Mrs. Petty's personal web-
page to share a memory at
www.niefuneralhomes.com
Kenneth Tyler Pinkston
Sunrise: May 20, 1964
Sunset: April 8, 2014
Kenneth Tyler Pinkston died
April 8, 2014.
Among those left to cherish
his memory are his daughter,
NaKendra (Troy) Gray; his
father, Levi Pinkston; two
brother, Anthony (Andrea)
Pinkston of Philadelphia, PA
and Kevin Pinkston of
Inkster; six nieces, Tracy,
Can'te, Latosha, Kaila, Ericka
and
Preshinay;
three
nephews, Kevin, Jr., Robert,
Jr. and Tre'; seven aunts; five
uncles; a host of cousins;
two godsons, Abrelon and
Kejuan, and many friends.
Mr. Pinkston was preceded in
death by his daughter,
NaKeya; his mother Louvinia,
and a sister, Tracy.
Funeral services took place
at the Penn Funeral Home
Chapel on Inkster Road in
Inkster with Pastor David
Huguly of Bethlehem Temple
of Praise and Evangelist
Robert White of St. Mary's
Missionary Baptist Church
officiating.
Interment was at United
Memorial
Gardens
in
Plymouth.
Final arrangements were
entrusted to the Penn
Funeral Home in Inkster.
Ora Jean Lee Steel
Sunrise: Dec. 18, 1932
Sunset: April 2, 2014
Ora Jean Lee Steel died April
2, 2014.
Among those left behind to
cherish her memory are her
daughter, Estrelita (Sam); a
brother, Emory (Gerri); a sis-
ter-in-law, Letha; her mother-
in-law, Lueller; her grandchil-
dren, Cynthia, Aleka and
Ryan; a great-grandchild; a
host of dearly loved nieces
and nephew; her adopted
sister, Lois, and those she
loved as her own, Kevin,
Tonya and Rene.
Funeral services took place
at the Penn Funeral Home on
Inkster Road in Inkster with
the Rev. Darryl Moore of
Greater Southern Missionary
Baptist Church officiating.
Interment was at Mt. Zion
Cemetery in Spring Hill, TN.
Final arrangements were
entrusted to the Penn
Funeral Home in Inkster.
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ORTHVILLE
City manager announces choice for new chief
Fire Chief Jim Allen who leads the
department that serves the City of Northville
and the City of Plymouth is stepping down
this summer after ahalf century of service.
Allen remains the only paid full-time
employee on the fire department staff that
serves the two cities. He said he's retiring 50
years after he first accepted a part-time job
as a paid-on-call firefighter with the 30-mem-
ber Village ofNorthville department in 1964.
Still working as the sexton for city-owned
Rural Hill Cemetery, Allen, 77, reminisced
about his long career last week and recalled
some of the most significant fires and memo-
ries during his timewith the department.
Allen recalled details of three separate
plane crashes in the city and a fire that shot
propane tanks into the air “like
missiles…and that really scaredme.”
Not much has changed in the way the fire
department operates since Allen's first days
as a volunteer.
He said he wanted a change, to do some-
thing different after high school graduation,
but he wasn't about to give up his job at the
Allen Monument Co., a family business start-
ed by his father in 1937. The business, now
known as the Inch Monument Co. continues
to thrive in Northville, under different own-
ership.
Allen said he was proud of all his years on
the job and of his fire department staff. He
added that he doesn't respond to fire calls
when he's working on a funeral at the ceme-
tery, however.
“When they call on the radio, I just say, 'I'm
at the cemetery'.”
Allen is sensitive about the merger of the
two fire departments he helped put together
at the request of Plymouth City Manager
Paul Sincock in 2011, and is defensive of any
criticism about the paid-on-call type of fire
service now serving the communities versus
the full-time fire service in neighboring com-
munities.
“Seventy-five percent of the firefighters
nationwide are paid-on-call.”Allen said.
Under the current Inter-Local Fire
Service Agreement, Northville provides for a
fire advisory board and has full responsibili-
ty for staffing at the two fire stations; one in
Northville and one in downtown Plymouth.
Emergency 911 calls are answered by a staff
of 30 to 55 part-time, paid on-call firefighters.
“Sincock asked if (I) could put together a
fire-department, and we've done it,” Allen
said.”
“For 17 years there was no fire station in
the city-until the joint agreement with
Northville,” Allen said, referring to the fire
station at 201 South Main St. in downtown
Plymouth. That station was not staffed by the
former joint fire department of the city and
township of Plymouth. That full-time depart-
ment used the three township-owned sta-
tions surrounding the city limits.
“I was happy to have the opportunity to
bring two community fire departments into
one. It was a challenge,”Allen said.
“It takes a special type person who wants
to be a paid on-call firefighter.”
Allen does predict some “bumps in the
road” in the future of the department.
He said he feels the fire department will
have to accept regionalization in the future,
citing utilization and sharing of equipment as
the reason. “We've all got to work together.”
Allen said.
Allen who has two grandchildren, a son
who's a lieutenant in the Redford Fire
Department and a daughter who works as a
Northville billing department clerk, said if
he had to do it all over again, he'd make the
same career choice, withone small caveat.
“I wouldwant to be a full-time firefighter,”
he said.
A retirement banquet in Allen's honor is
planned for 6-10 p.m. June 26 at the Italian
American Banquet Center on five Mile Road
in Livonia. Tickets are $40 and available at
NorthvilleCityHall.
For more information, phone Lt. Jason
Jordan at (248) 912-8611.
Editor's note:
About the time Allen was attending
Northville High School, the attorney who was
the secretary and record keeper for the private-
ly owned Rural Hill Cemetery was killed in a
car crash. Northville took over the ownership
andmanagement of the cemetery and gave the
records job to the Allen family business because
of their relationshipwith the area funeral direc-
tors. Jim Allen became the official Cemetery
Sexton, a job he still holds the today and plans
to keep.
Northville attorney Steve Ott will
become the new Northville Fire Chief,
replacing 50-year veteran Jim Allen, who
will officially retire July 1.
Ott's promotion was announced by City
Manager Patrick Sullivan during the regu-
lar city councilmeeting last week.
Ott, presently a captain in the depart-
ment, has been with the Northville depart-
ment since 1986. He said he is “honored to
succeed aman likeChief JimAllen.”
During his tenure with the fire depart-
ment, Ott has also practiced law with the
firmof Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone,
PLC. He is a senior principal and a former
managing director of the firm.
He said he would take on a new role at
the law firm in light of his promotion to fire
chief.
Currently the training officer with the
department, he also assists as the delegate
to the Health Emergency Medical Service,
Inc., Medical Control Authority Quality
Improvement program and maintains the
EMS licensing. He was promoted to the
rank of sergeant in 1993, lieutenant in 1998
and became a captain in the department in
2011. Ott has an EMT license and has
attended training programs throughout the
state.
He holds a bachelor's degree with high
honors from the James Madison College at
Michigan State University and earned his
law degree, cum laude, from Wayne State
University.
He and his wife, Mary Starring, the
owner of Starring the Gallery in downtown
Northville, are the parents of two grown
children.
Ott said his goals would include strength-
ening the relationship the City of Northville
has with Plymouth and the partnership the
department haswith all theMutual Aidpar-
ticipants in the area.
Don Howard
Staff Writer
Fire chief resigns after 50 years on duty
Fire Chief Jim Allen
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