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Event
Date: June
12,
2022
Time: 1:00
p.m. - 3:00
p.m.
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Wayne
State to
hold
memorial
for
former
Sen.
Carl
Levin
apnews.com
DETROIT
- Wayne
State
University
plans to
hold a
memorial
service
this
weekend
for
former
U.S.
Sen.
Carl
Levin,
Michigan’s
longest-serving
U.S.
senator
who died
last
year.
Sunday’s
service
was
announced
Monday
by
Levin’s
namesake,
the
school’s
Levin
Center
for
Oversight
and
Democracy
at Wayne
State
University
Law
School.
Previous
memorial
plans
were
postponed
last
summer
due to
coronavirus
concerns,
The
Detroit
News
reported.
The
Detroit
Democrat’s
family,
friends
and
colleagues
plan to
honor
his life
and
legacy
at the
invitation-only
memorial
at 1
p.m.
Sunday
at the
university’s
Student
Center
Ballroom
in
Detroit.
Levin
was the
longest-serving
U.S.
senator
in
Michigan
history.
He was
the
state’s
first
Jewish
senator
and
served
in the
chamber
for 36
years
beginning
in 1979.
Levin,
who was
famous
for
gazing
over
eyeglasses
worn on
the end
of his
nose,
retired
from the
Senate
in 2015.
He had
been
receiving
treatment
for lung
cancer
before
he died
in July
2021 at
age 87.
Levin
was the
younger
brother
of
retired
U.S.
Rep.
Sander
Levin of
Royal
Oak, who
also
served
for 36
years,
and was
uncle to
two-term
U.S.
Rep.
Andy
Levin,
D-Bloomfield
Township.
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