Lansing Police Historical Preservation Association
high quality navy blue t-shirt sale - see sales
page and flyer
for more details and order form.
08/26/08 - Just a note to
tell you that I am fine now and my healing went well. I
seem to be able to walk with out any pain for a change.
Thanks for all your prayers. You can take me off the sick
list at long last. - Roger Meredith
Police
and Fire Retirement Board July 2008 Minutes
Previous LPD officer Claude Thomas passed away 08/18/08
Claude
Thomas was born March 15, 1943 in Clarksdale, MS to George
and Pearl Thomas. At the age of 9 months, his family moved
to Lansing, Michigan.
As a youth, Claude joined Mass Memorial Church, where he later
taught Sunday school and later attended Friendship Baptist
Church. Mr. Thomas attended Lansing Schools. He earned his
B. A. Degree from Michigan State University in 1972, and his
Juris Doctorate from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 1976,
where he was the first black student and graduate. He was
the first black Ingham County Assistant Prosecutor, one of
Lansing's first black police officers, and Lansing's first
black District Court Judge.
Claude was preceded in death by his parents, George and Pearl
Thomas and brother George Thomas II. Survivors include: his
sons, Claude Thomas II, Dr. Jerry Thomas, and Patrick Thomas;
daughters, LaTonya Terry, Alexandra Thomas, Andrea Thomas,
and Ashley Thomas; 12 grandchildren; brother, James Thomas;
sisters, Mary Murray and Jackie Bonds; former wives: Park
Thomas, devoted mother of his four oldest children; Cindy
Fontus, devoted mother of his two youngest; and Katherine
Morehouse, mother of daughter Ashley; special friend, Michael
Sandborn; and a host of nieces, nephews and friends.
Friends may visit Mr. Thomas Thursday, August 21, 2-7 p.m.,
at the Riley Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held Friday,
August 22, 12:30 p.m. at Friendship Baptist Church, 2912 Pleasant
Grove Rd., Lansing. The family will receive friends 30 minutes
prior to the funeral. The family will also receive friends
at the Elks Lodge, 5334 S. MLK Blvd. Friday at 4:30 p.m.
08/13/08 - Anyone attend the LPD Reunion at Mountain
Lake Golf Club on August 9th & 10th and have
stories or pictures to share? Send them to us and we'll
get them posted. Send them to mickey@apex-internet.com.
Jan and I recently made a trip to Washington D.C. where
we made a visit to the National Law Enforcement Officers
Memorial. If you have yet to see this beautiful Memorial,
I urge you to do so. Once there you will never forget it
. I had a personal goal to find those I had worked with
and considered my friends:
|
Panel |
Side |
Line |
Mac Donnelly, LPD |
60 |
East |
13 |
Jim Johnson, ELPD |
58 |
East |
15 |
Dean Whitehead, LPD |
56 |
East |
10 |
Julie Englehardt, LPD |
64 |
East |
17 |
Paul “PC” Cole, ICSD |
2 |
East |
20 |
After obtaining the panel and line information from the
directory, we took a couple of the pencils and a pad of
the tracing paper that’s provided for you and went
looking We found them all. It was a very emotional and moving
experience for me. I’m very glad that I finally got
to see the Memorial and found my friends. I can’t
stress enough to all of my fellow retirees and friends to
go to Washington D.C. and see the Memorial. - God Bless,
Mike Ross
Thank
you for your recent support of the LPD Retirees and Friends
website:
Richard & Hedy Gleason
Stan & Anne Burnett
Doug & Elaine Williams
Help Renee Korrey raise money for
the Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Philanthropic
Trust Breast Cancer Fund. See the Events
page.
ALL SWORN OFFICERS, EMPLOYEES, AND
RETIREES OF LPD
The Lansing Police Historical Preservation
Association is in the process of publishing a historical
pictorial book of LPD. We invite you to submit photographs.
However, we do not guarantee that all photos will be used
in the book. We recommend photos of officers performing
their duties and also of officers taking part in community
activities--photos that are important/meaningful to each
of you.
Each photo must also have a note attached
with your name, email or phone number and the approximate
year of photo & names of everyone in the photo. THERE
MUST BE A HARD COPY OF EACH PHOTOGRAPH - THEREFORE, photos
may be dropped off at the Heyden's in the mail slot @
4901 Devonshire or mailed to that address-OR given to
Jim Heyden on Tuesday's from 8am-12pm at the South Precinct,
OR-you can send them by interoffice mail to Jim Deline.
We welcome your comments and suggestions.
If you have questions please call 882-9913. THE DEADLINE
FOR ALL PHOTOS IS TUESDAY, AUGUST 26, 2008.
Mike Tellschow, the Clevenger Brothers and
Jim Rapp would like to invite all active/retired Police
Officers, friends and family to the first annual LPD
REUNION at Mountain Lake Golf Club in
Gaylord MI on August 9th and 10th.
See the events page
for more details.
Jobs in exotic places -
see the jobs page for details
- 05/15/08
You may check the progress of Bruce Lankheet’s
daughter, Elizabeth Pierce at their blog - http://elizabethpierce.blogspot.com/
City of Lansing 2008 Retirement
and Health Care Conference at the Lansing Center, Tuesday,
September 23rd - see more details
here.
Ingham Circuit Court Judge Bill Collette
is running for re-election. For more information or to
help the Judge please visit his website at:
www.colletteforjudge.com
Fellow Retirees and Friends:
Please consider volunteering to host a dinner
during 2008.
We need hosts for June, July, August, September, November,
and the Annual White Elephant Gift Exchange and Christmas
Dinner
See the dinner calendar
page for details.
Half Price Golf at Mountain Lake in Gaylord
All active and retired police officers, fire fighters and
military personnel are welcome to play our golf course at
1/2 price. The name of our course is Mountain Lake
and we are located at 1233 Charles Brink Rd, Gaylord
MI. Phone is (989) 731-1300. You can also find
us at www.mountainlakegolf.com.
- Howard Clevenger
April 1968 lansing PD Motorcyle Cops
The officers from front to back are: J. Backlund; B. Behrmann;
J. Heyden; T. Munshaw; K. Getts; C. Finn; D. Fink; W.
Skinner; R. Reisner; I. Ruby; W. Castle; P. Klein; C.
Shawnee; and G. Stout.
The command officers are from left to right: Capt. Eddie;
Lt. R. Jackson; Sgt. W. Cavanaugh; and Sgt. R. Becker.
If anyone has some pictures like this or of other events
please contact us. We would like to put them on the website
and share them.
1968 Lansing Police Department
Employee Roster Photo
Click here
to enlarge
If you wish to have a copy of this photo
please contact us at:
info@lpdretirees-friends.org
