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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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The Michigan Optometric Association
O: 517.482.0616

The Passing of Phyllis Starr

To: Membership, MOA
From: Bill Dansby, Ex. VP, MOA
Subject: Passing of Phyllis Starr

It is with a profound sense of sadness and great personal as well as professional loss that I advise you that Phyllis Starr, administrative assistant/bookkeeper in the office of the Michigan Optometric Association, was killed in an automobile accident near Mt. Pleasant, MI on Sun., Feb. 25, 2007. Phyllis, her husband, Jim, and daughter, Debie, had gone up north for the weekend. They were returning at mid-morning on Sunday when their car hit a patch of ice, went out of control and overturned several times after it left the highway. The roof of the car was collapsed down to the seats and Phyllis, a passenger in the front seat, was apparently killed instantly. Jim was pinned in the car and had to be cut out when emergency workers arrived. He suffered a broken leg, severe lacerations and internal injuries and remains in the intensive care unit of Lansing’s Sparrow Hospital. Miraculously, Debie, who was in the back seat, was not injured. The Starrs have two other daughters, Pam, who lives in North Carolina, and Kim who lives in Lansing.

A visitation for Phyllis will be held at the Estes Leadley Greater Lansing Chapel, 325 W. Washtenaw St., Lansing, MI 48933 from 3:00-5:00 p.m. on Sun., Mar. 4, and funeral services will be conducted at the chapel on Mon., Mar. 5, beginning at 10:00 a.m. Burial will follow the services in Lansing’s Evergreen Cemetery on Mt. Hope Avenue. For those who wish to send cards or notes of condolences, they may be sent to: Mr. H. James Starr & Family, 2141 Mark Ave., Lansing, MI 48912.

Phyllis, who was 71 but certainly didn’t look or act her age, was an excellent employee who gave the Michigan Optometric Association 20 years of outstanding service. She will be deeply missed by her fellow employees in the association office as well as her family, friends in the profession of optometry and the community in which she lived.

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