Edward X. Tuttle *52

Ted died Nov. 21, 2021, in Essexville, Mich. 

He was born June 28, 1927, in Ann Arbor, Mich. In 1944, at Union College, Ted joined the V-12 program. In 1947 he joined the U.S. Naval Reserves, attaining the rank of commander in 1963 and retiring in 1967. 

At Brown he earned a bachelor’s degree in engineering while serving as a member of the Naval Officer Training Corps. Ted did graduate work at Princeton and Michigan, then joined the Michigan architectural firm Giffels and Vallet. In 1959 he opened his own architecture business in Southfield, Mich., and remodeled the Battle Creek Gas Co. building.  For a gas station and diner in Alpena, Mich., Ted helped design a 30-foot-tall Paul Bunyan lumberjack made almost entirely of Kaiser automobile parts. Kaiser Paul became the mascot of the Alpena Community College Lumberjacks cross-country team. 

Persuaded that he was suited to the law as a specialist in architectural and engineering litigation, Ted graduated from the Detroit College of Law in 1977 and joined the firm of Denenberg, Tuffley in Southfield, retiring in 1991.

Ted is survived by children Nora, Nancy, and Roy; three grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and sister Patricia Gazouleas. 

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