5/24/2020. On the morning of May 12, Brent’s partner wrote to Duane Brown to let him know that Brent had died. Joe said, “His sister and I held him close as he peacefully drew his last breaths at the hospital” after a long illness.
Duane shared the news with our class Facebook community, and a comment by Laurie McFall Leinbach on Brent’s sweet nature was echoed by others using almost the same words. Colleen McLean Calver reminisced about a Class of ’65 regional reunion in 2015 in Austin where Brent lived. That was the first chance for some of us to meet him in person.
Brent was a Texas native and it was his father’s career as a Ford Motor Co. executive that brought him to Michigan. He majored in German and comparative literature at SMU, continuing in graduate school at the University of Texas, and became a gifted and highly respected German scholar, teacher and translator. Brent was, as Susan Magid Bergin noted, “a true gentleman” and he will be missed.
Front row, left to right: Ron Haft's wife, Rose, Mim Streiff Poag, Brent Daeuble
2nd row: Ron Haft, Sandy Kuhn Sharum, Denny Olmsted, Bill Kirchen
3rd row: Nancy McArtor, Duane Brown, Joh Sharum, Colleen McLean Calver
Top: Colleen's husband, Lew Calver
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