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Joan Irma Holtgreive
Joan Holtgreive May 7, 1929-June 21, 2026 Joan Irma (Durocher) Holtgreive was born in Detroit, Michigan on May 7, 1929, to Otto Oliver and Louise Mary (Van Coillie) Durocher. Five months after Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, one month before Anne Frank, and five months before the stock market crash that launched the Great Depression. In her 97 years, Joan witnessed history and made her mark on it. Literally, once, as she decided to “touch up” a painting that turned out to be wor
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