Funeral for Slain Birmingham Teacher Harry Berkowitz Monday

West Maple Elementary School will let out early today so former colleagues of the longtime teacher can attend.

  Former West Maple Elementary School teacher Harry Berkowitz will be laid to rest Monday during an afternoon service followed by burial in Birmingham. Friends, family and former coworkers will gather at 3 p.m. for a memorial at Hebrew Memorial Chapel in Oak Park. Rabbi Steven Rubenstein will officiate. Burial will follow at Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham. Police said Berkowitz, 72, was murdered at his home on Charles Lane in Franklin last Tuesday by roommate Thomas Ian Matthews. The 33-year-old ended his own life during a standoff with police in a Royal Oak home later that day. The death remains under investigation.  According to Berkowitz's funeral listing on the chapel's website, the former teacher is survived by sister Gloria …

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Seaholm Remembers Collin Trask With Words, Photos and Music

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  For so many at Seaholm High School, Collin Trask was more than a classmate. For so many, Trask — who passed away Tuesday after a long battle with cancer — was an inspiration. "To know you even for a little while is a blessing and you will forever be an inspiration," Brooke Jackson tweeted on Tuesday. She was one of hundreds of students and community members who took to social media to remember Trask, a football fan once described by the Seaholm Highlander as "the toughest kid at Seaholm." Diagnosed in seventh grade, Trask suffered from a medulloblastoma, a kind of brain tumor that lodged itself in Trask's brain and spinal cord. After suffering a stroke on Jan. 15, Trask passed away around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, according to his Care …

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