Susan Stark, longtime Detroit film critic, dies at 80
Susan Stark, a longtime Detroit film critic who loved being in that world between the artists and the average person, died Friday at a New York hospital beside her daughters. She was 80 years old.
Ms. Stark died from cancer a week after checking into a New York hospital. She was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer 20 years ago and had a clean bill of health until recently, her friends and family said. She had not been feeling well since the first of the year, said longtime friend Judy Diebolt. She was always active, a walker that loved yoga, but after she checked into the hospital last Friday, they found many tumors.
To some people, sewing is an art, a satisfying means of creative expression. To others, it’s a profession. To many of us it’s simply a way of keeping our clothes from falling into tatters, a necessary evil that keeps our buttons buttoned, our hems from sagging.
To us Sisters, though, sewing represents one thing: our mother, Rose Stark a”h.
The word evokes an almost tangible image of Mommy plying a dressmaker’s needle in order to help Daddy who gently wielded a butcher’s meat cleaver feed and clothe the three of us, to pay for the steep but necessary costs of a Torah education.