Michael Kent Maloney, 74 years young, unexpectedly passed away outside of his Lake Sallie home on September 27th, 2022. “Mike” was born November 14th, 1947 in Hennepin County Minnesota. He moved to Detroit Lakes, and attended a country school in Lakeview Township. At the age of 12 he attended Washington Elementary where he met his lifelong partner, his Queen, Ilene, to whom he married in 1966. Together they raised three children, Elizabeth, Patrick, and Brian. The family spent most of their early years on Willow Street in Detroit Lakes. Mike and Ilene moved their family to McDonough beach on Lake Sallie, to a plot of land that was homesteaded and farmed by his grandfather. Mike embodied every aspect of a Shoreham local by raising a toast with friends at Hotel Shoreham, playing copious rounds of golf at Detroit Country Club and Saturday morning beer golf on the “Short Side”, where he would offer up six foot “gimme” putts. In addition to being a fixture on the course, he enth
Summer is a season full of traditions, memory-making, and “back-in-the-day” reminiscences. Annual trips to a family cabin on the lake. Friendships made on New Hampshire shorelines. Boating with neighbors. Times to cherish.I felt these summer.