Ninth Generation

16931. Mariella Coffey was born on 23 June 1922 in Michigan. She lived with her mother in Tecumseh, Lenawee Co., MI on 12 April 1940. Mariella died in Colorado on 1 May 2001 and was buried at Oak Grove Cemetery in St. Louis, Gratiot Co., MI in May 2001 .⁴³³³⁰

Mariella Coffey and Emil Lockwood were married. Emil Lockwood was born on 23 September 1919 in Ottawa, LaSalle Co., IL. Emil died at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Washtenaw Co., MI on 2 August 2002 of undetermined natural causes.and remains cremated. His ashes were scattered in the ocean off Duck Key, FL.^43331,43332

Obituary, The Detroit News, Detroit, MI, Sun., Aug. 4, 2002

ANN ARBOR -- Emil Lockwood, a Michigan Senate majority leader who successfully pushed several civil rights bills after Detroit's 1967 riots, died Friday, Aug. 2, 2002. He was 82.

The Hamburg, Mich., resident died at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital of undetermined natural causes.

Biographer Stan Fedewa of Lansing said Mr. Lockwood kept busy until shortly before his death, meeting with Gov. John Engler in June to pose for pictures for Fedewa's book, "Man in Motion: Michigan's Legendary Senate Majority Leader, Emil Lockwood." The book, written with his wife, Marilyn, is scheduled for release in early 2003.

While interviewing Michigan politicians, Fedewa found a near-universal consensus about Mr. Lockwood, a Republican, regardless of the source's own ideology.

"There was this consensus that he was a fundamentally decent man," Fedewa said. "He was not a partisan person." Friends included Coleman A. Young, a Democratic senator who went on to become Detroit's mayor.

Born in rural Ottawa, Ill., Lockwood later taught at Adrian College in Michigan and became a certified public accountant who owned insurance and accounting firms. Mr. Lockwood represented his Gratiot County district in Lansing from 1963-70.

The senator made his biggest mark working on legislation to promote fair and open housing after riots hit Detroit. Lockwood, who also helped establish Michigan's income tax to pay for state services, counted the housing bill as his greatest achievement as a legislator.

During interviews for the book, Fedewa asked Mr. Lockwood repeatedly how a farm-town lawmaker wound up as a leader for civil rights and urban reform.

"He never would brag. Ultimately, he just said, 'I thought it was the right thing to do,' " Fedewa said Saturday. "He felt it was his crowning achievement."

Straightforward, with an ever-present sense of humor and a drive to "get things done yesterday," Mr. Lockwood graduated from the University of Michigan in 1941, and received his master's degree in 1947.

He earned five medals as a U.S. Naval officer specializing in amphibious warfare in the Pacific during World War II. After the war, Mr. Lockwood taught amphibious warfare at Westminster College in Missouri, and coached football at the Missouri School for the Deaf.

Mr. Lockwood learned sign language "as a symbol of solidarity" after a deaf-mute man saved his life, Fedewa said.

After an unsuccessful run for Secretary of State in 1970, Mr. Lockwood partnered with Jerry Coomes to found Public Affairs Associates, a lobbying firm. Now under the name Public Sector Consultants, the firm is still among the lobbying powerhouses in Lansing.

Mr. Lockwood is survived by his wife, Anna one son, Eric two daughters, Lori and Lorette a stepdaughter, Franny 10 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

A memorial service is planned for mid-August in the Lansing area, but arrangements have not been finalized.

A living couple was married in 1941 in Defiance, Defiance Co., OH.⁴³³³³ Living, son of Elmer A. Smith and Bertha Tripp, was born circa 1918.