KINGSFORD The Kingsford Centennial car cruise and parade will take place Saturday, starting at 9 a.m. This is an opportunity to see parade grand marshals
JEFFREY DERIDDER
BREITUNG TOWNSHIP Jeffrey Robert DeRidder, 78, of Breitung Township, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, Dec. 26, and drove off to that great racetrack in the sky.
Jeff was born July 15, 1942, in Norway, Mich., to the late Joseph and Lucille (Dollinger) DeRidder. After his father was killed in action in World War II, he attended elementary schools in Norway and Iron Mountain before moving to Chicago with his mother, a professional singer, for several years. He spent summers in Iron Mountain working in his grandmother’s restaurant, the Casa Loma, and graduated from Iron Mountain High School in 1960.
He studied mechanical engineering at Michigan Technological University for two years but later transferred to Northern Michigan University, where he obtained a degree in math and physics.