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I 4. '70 PFTROIT FREE i 17 -v urn I it lw v-x it A. tmS She reived several of ths grandchild! en at Rose Terrar and was official guardian for two of them. Her grandsons will he hrr pallbearers. Dodge III, presently attending prep in Boca Raton, Fla.

Besides hrr seven grandchildren, Mrs. Dodge leaves more than 20 great-grandchildren. Jh5 the surface," slip once said. "A boat should sit d'Hvn in the water." Mrs. Dodge was steady and imperturbable through a set romantic adventures by her children that would have rattled and disconcerted many a lesser lady.

Her daughter, Delphine, was married first to James H. R. Cromwell, a Philadelphia Main Liner who later married Doris Duke; then to Raymond T. Baker, one time director of the U.S. Mint; and at last to an English bank clerk, Timothy Godde, her mate at the time of her death.

Delphine had two daughters Christine, married five times, and Anna, married three times. But the most flamboyant Dodge by far was Mrs. Dodge's only son, Horace mocked by his critics with such nicknames as "Shiftless Dodge" and "the only Dodge that runs on alcohol." Horace Jr. had five wives -Lois Knowlson find Muriel Sisman, both of Detroit; Mickey Devine, a Broadway showgirl; Clara Tin.sley. a Women's Army Corps nure from Louisville; and Gregg Sherwood, a starlet to whom he was married when he died.

His wiother seemed to regard Horace Jr. with more pity than censure. "If he hadn't been a rich man's son," she said once, "Horace might have been a great engineerhe had his father's inventive genius." AS IT WAS Horace Jr. mostly played his life away. After his death, Mrs.

Dodge settled with his blond and high-living widow Gregg who later married her bodyguard for an estimated $9 million. Horace Jr. had five children Mrs. Delphine Dodge Petz of Grosse Pointe; Horace E. Dodge III of Los Gatos, Diane Dodge of Lexington, and Orange, David Elgin Dodge of Meiringen, Switzerland; and John F.

tune, although her management of it was clear-eyed and efficient. "I probably have more genuine pieces of jewelry and wear less than anyone you know," she once told an interviewer. "And of them all I like pearls the best. Emeralds ar lovely but diamonds are cold. Pearls are a lady's gem, always correct." Perhaps the most lavish of her accoutrements was her yacht, the Delphine, named after her daughter.

It was 257 feet long, weighed 1,700 tons, had eight staterooms and required a crew of 38 sailors. Its equipment Included a pipe organ. A FEW YEARS ago, Mrs. Dodge gave the yacht to Project Hope for use as a hospital ship. Its departure took away one of the most imposing watermarks of Lake St.

Glair a low, slim and graceful craft that well-fitted Mrs. Dodge's desires. "I don't like those new boats that Just skim along on TODAYS BRIDES HAVE DEFINITE IDEAS, SO- or, SI I A ir ..5 5 tl "-sr 3 vA ire Continued from Tage SA Despite her later opulence, it was on those earliest years that Mrs. Dodge looked back upon with greatest fondness. "The happiest years of my life," she said much later, "were when I was packing Horace Dodge's lunch pail." The Dodge brothers began making their own automobile in 1914.

Six year later, both died. Horace Dodge Sr. left an estate of about $60 million. The bulk of Dodge's estate was invested in municipal and state bonds, which are tax free. The estate yielded Mrs.

Dodge an income of about $1.5 million a year. IN LATER years, tax reformers were critical of the arrangement, although it was entirely legal. "An enormous amout of money is going untaxed," U.S. Rep. Martha Griffiths of Michigan said last year.

But Mrs. Dodge held fast to the arrangement, despite a lawsuit brought in 1953 by one of her grand-daughters who felt that the estate would have paid off more money faster if it had been invested in stocks. Six years after her husband's death, Mrs. Dodge re-married. Her marriage to Hugh Dillman, a handsome stage actor who was considerably younger that she, ended In divorce in 1947.

Dillman died in 1956.. The month before her engagement to Dillman was announced, Mrs. Dodge bought a nearly incredible mansion in Palm Beach, Fla. Designed by Addison Mizener, It was called Playa Riente (Laughing Sands). It had more than 100 rooms and cost $4 million when built a few years earlier for Joshua Cosden, an Oklahoma oil magnate.

Mrs. Dodge let the Palm Beach mansion go in 1957. When no one else could afford to buy It for a residence, and when she was unable to get the area rezoned so it could be used as a club or school, she sold all the furnishings and had it razed. Mrs. Dodge spoke in simple terms of her fantastic for- Father of 7 Found Slain Osteopath Friend Held Free Press Photo by JIMMY TAFOYA FREE OF THE traditional confines of a classroom, Dedra Buchwald (left) and Jane Eothstein, both 18, share the joys of learning and putting together a "free school" in the Birmingham-Bloomfield area.

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There are about 1,000 of them fco far and they all have one thing in common; The-y attend the Free School. The Free School of the north Wright Kay Master Charge and Michigan BanWds accepted. 1500 Woodward, 17051 Kercheval in Grosse Fointe, Northland and b. woodward in Birmmoham. vol BY DON LENHAUSEN Free frees Staff Writer An Oakland County osteopath, described as an "easygoing guy," was charged with murder Wednesday in the early morning slaying of an Oxford businessman and father of seven children.

The fatal shooting of Neil Churchill, 40, and the arrest of his longtime friend and business associate, Dr. Gene W. Fredericks, 40, electrified the Oakland County village. Fredericks' wife, Janet, had filed a divorce action March 16th in Circuit Court, according to the Oxford Leader, the community's weekly newspaper. Churchill and Fredericks were former partners in a discount furniture business, and at one time the families had been "quite close," villagers said.

CHURCHILL'S body was found in the alley behind his cleaning establishment at 44 South Washington at 1 :30 a.m. He had been shot once In the chest. Oxford police went to the alley softer the Pontiac State Police received a call that a man had been shot and needed an ambulance. Oxford Police Chief Albert Roberts said the call was made by Fredericks, who At All 1 SJBLEY'S STOKES MEDIlifi COOL! ok NEW DOUBLE ZIP BOOT FROM HUSH PUPPIES" lives in an expensive lakeside home at 157 Brookfield. Police arrested Fredericks at his home and said he initially admitted the slaying but declinedto give a reason.

They said he turned over to them a pistol. Fredericks later pleaded not i 1 1 to a first-degree murder charge in District Court at Rochester. Judge Robert L. Shipper ordered him held without bond pending a pretrial examination June 15. ROBERTS SAID Fredericks has lived in his present home for about five years.

Oxford, a community of 2,600 persons, is 12 miles north of Pontiac. Fredericks' medical practice is in Lake Orion, three miles south of Oxford. The Frederickses have three children. In addition to the dry cleaning business in Oxford, Churchill also operated one in Lake Orion. He also had a snowmobile sales agency.

He was a lifelong Oxford resident. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Bos-sardet Funeral Home in Oxford. Burial will be in Ridge-lawn Cemetery in Oxford. Surviving are Churchill's wife, Vesta, 42; seven children Rhonda, 17; Debbie, i'S and 36 Branches Made I CD Mr RENT a New Piano WITH OPTION TO BUY! wr tfi't 1 DeadMan Outpolls All 4 Opponents LOS ANGELES' (UPI)-State Assemblyman Pat McGee, who died last week, piled up more votes Wednesday in the California primary than all his four opponents.

The incumbent McGee'a name remained on the ballot and although four write-in candidates qualified at the last minute, McGee outpolled them all. With two-thirds of the returns counted, he had received more than 17,000 votes. The Republican County general committee will have to sleet the nominee in the San Fernando Valley's 64th Assembly District. WI SPECIALIZE Man's Suftt liaitn Slicks Tuxtdo SON WHO IS CUSTOM more than 70 classes. The girls enlisted the aid of area ministers and obtained the facilities of thre Birmingham churches, Franklin Community Church, United Church of Christ and Birmingham Unitarian Church.

Franklin Community's pastor the Rev. Marvin Brown, who also Volunteered to teach a describes, the Free School as "a beautiful project." The catalog of classes, printed for $350, is the only item for which the Free School has had to spend money. "We can't lose anything," says Jane, 'who put up the cash. "We've already gotten $200 back from donations and we're planning a concert where we'll ask for more." The teachers, including some professionals, work without pay. Classes devise their own programs and leaders and participants are often hard to tell apart.

The girls explain: "All kinds of people of all different ideas and ages participate. Everyone just laughs and learns." THE FREE School's most popular classes, which involve as many as 75 to 100 persons, are those which increase personal and social awareness, such as sensitivity, yoga, and revolution of conciousness. One unusual and popular class, junkshop tripping, involves going from junk yards to backyards to back alleys to flea markets in search of usuable items. The cruising on Woodward class, under the direction of Gary Gratzer (alias Bobbie Fender) is a crash course in lane changing and avoiding speed traps on Woodward. Come in for complete details.

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