Margaret Barbara Lang

1902 - 1999  (~ 96 years)

• Name	Margaret Barbara Lang
  Born	Oct 1902	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1, 2]
  Gender	Female
  Name	Margaret Barbara Couzens
  Name	Margaret Barbara Slattery
  Residence	1911	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada   [1]
  	Catholic
  Eby ID Number	Waterloo-179852
  Died	30 Jun 1999	Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne, Michigan, USA   [2]
  Buried	Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, Wayne Co., Ontario   [2]
  Person ID	I179852	Generations
  Last Modified	6 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	George Charles Henry Lang,   b. 13 Aug 1851, Waterloo Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada ,   d. 15 Jul 1936, Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada  (Age 84 years)
  Mother	Elenora "Nellie" Foley,   b. 8 Mar 1864, Whitby, Whitby Twp., Ontario Co., Ontario, Canada ,   d. 1940  (Age 75 years)
  Family ID	F9971	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Gerard R. Slattery,   b. 1901, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States ,   d. 1989  (Age 88 years)
  Married	29 Oct 1955
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F22272	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Mayor Frank Couzens,   b. 28 Feb 1902, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States ,   d. 31 Oct 1950  (Age 48 years)
  Married	19 Oct 1922	Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024
  Family ID	F49094	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Mrs. Gerard R. (Margaret) Slattery, former Children's Hospital of Michigan President and Chairman of the Board from 1956 until 1972 passed away on Wednesday, June 30, 1999. Known affectionately as "Mrs. Children's Hospital", Mrs. Slattery was a longtime community leader and volunteer. "Mrs. Slattery was unfailingly gracious," said Dr. Larry Fleischmann, interim Senior Vice President of Children's Hospital of Michigan. "Her passion and dedication to children is unparalleled. Her legacy lives on inside these walls each and every day." Mrs. Slattery, the former Mrs. Frank Couzens, followed a family tradition of service to Children. ______________ Margaret Lang Counzens Wednesday, June 30 at home after a lingering illness. Age 95. Wife of the late Frank Couzens, Mayor of Detroit and the late Gerard R. Slattery. Mother of Frank Couzens Jr. (Linda), Peggy C. (Edward) Roney, Mary E. Couzens, Barbara C. (Leo) Brennan, George Lang Couzens, Patricia S. (Peter) Quail, and the late James Couzens II and Homer (Skip) Couzens. Also survived by 37 grandchildren and 60 great-grandchildren. Requiem Mass at St. Paul Church, Grosse Pointe Farms 11 a.m. Friday, July 2. Visitation at home 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Thursday July 1. Interment at Woodlawn Cemetery. Memorial constributions may be made to the Margaret Couzens Slattery Endowment Fund at Childrens Hospital of Michigan or to the charity of your choice. ________________________ Margaret Couzens Slattery, always helping others GROSSE POINTE FARMS -- Margaret Couzens Slattery, a champion of civic duty, wasn't shy about getting her point across. "When it came to helping others, she was very insistent. She wasn't a bit a bashful," son Frank Couzens Jr. said. Mrs. Slattery, a long-time patron of Children's Hospital of Detroit and civic programs, died Wednesday, June 30, 1999, in her Grosse Pointe Farms home after a lengthy illness. She was 95. Born in Kitchener, Ontario, Mrs. Slattery was educated at Kenwood Sacred Heart Academy in Albany, N.Y. She moved to Detroit in 1932 after marrying Frank Couzens, who was mayor of Detroit from 1933 to 1938, and chairman of the Wabeek State Bank of Detroit. He died in 1950. In 1955, she married Gerard R. Slattery, an insurance executive who died in 1989. Mrs. Slattery was involved in a wide range of activities. "She did it all really, because she wanted to help others. That was her main goal," Couzens said. Mrs. Slattery was president of the League of Catholic Women, director of the United Way of Michigan, a trustee of the Greater Detroit Area Hospital Council, a Detroit Historical Commission member and vice-president, a trustee of the American Red Cross Detroit Chapter, a director of the Girl Scouts of America, a trustee of Detroit Educational TV and a member of the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Detroit Board of Education. As part of her patronage of the Children's Hospital of Michigan in Detroit in the 1950s, Mrs. Slattery led the successful effort to raise $23 million to build a new facility, replacing the one built in 1896. In recognition of her years of community service, Mrs. Slattery was awarded an honorary doctorate of literature by the University of Detroit in 1952. In 1963, she received the Doctor Derry Award from Marygrove College and the Hannah H. Solomon Award for Exceptional Community Service. Survivors include two sons, Frank Couzens Jr. and George Lang Couzens four daughters, Peggy C. Roney, Mary E. Couzens, Barbara C. Brennan and Patricia S. Quail, 37 grandchildren and 60 great-grandchildren. A requiem mass for Mrs. Slattery will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Friday at St. Paul Church, 157 Lake Shore in Grosse Pointe Farms. Burial will be at Woodlawn Cemetery in Detroit. Detroit News, The (MI) - Thursday, July 1, 1999

  
  

• Sources

  [S340] Census - ON, Waterloo, Berlin - 1911, Div. 28 Pg. 2. [S3231] Find A Grave, Cemetery, W., America, N., County, W., & Cemetery, W. (1904). Margaret Barbara Lang Slattery (1904-1999) - Find... Retrieved 15 July 2020, from https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/180489833/margaret-barbara-slattery.

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - Oct 1902 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Residence - Catholic - 1911 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Married - 19 Oct 1922 - Kitchener, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada Died - 30 Jun 1999 - Grosse Pointe Farms, Wayne, Michigan, USA  = Link to Google Earth