Norbert Roth

ROTH, NORBERT C. Age 94, suffered an aortic aneurism and within a few hours traveled into Paradise on May 29. Norbert was born in Bay City, MI on August 6, 1918, to Augusta and Herman Roth, who had six sons. Norbert was preceded in death by his brothers, Harold, Arnold, Clifford, Elmer and Otto. In 1942, Norbert married Ann J. Dombrowski, and they had two children: Michael (Okemos, MI) and Darleen Flaherty (Taylor, MI). After two years of junior college, Norbert started working as an hourly employee at the Kuhlman Electric Co. in Bay City. Over the years, he became a salaried employee at Kuhlman and started climbing the ladder of success. Kuhlman Electric Co. became a corporation and moved its headquarters to the Birmingham, MI area. Norbert designed and had built a custom home in the Village of Beverly Hills, just outside the city limits of Birmingham. As the Kuhlman Corp. grew and prospered, becoming a Fortune 500 corporation, Norbert also prospered, becoming the V.P. of Human Relations until he retired in the late 1980s. Norbert's wife, Ann, passed away in 1984. In 1988, he got remarried to Marjorie Napper of Taylor, MI (mother of three children) and Norbert enjoyed his relationship as step-father and grandpa and great-grandpa with his new family. As a young man, Norbert attended Immanuel Lutheran Church (Bay City); as a married man, he attended Zion Lutheran Church (Bay City); after moving away from Bay City in 1957, he became a member of Our Shepherd Lutheran Church (Birmingham). Norbert traveled the world for business and pleasure and visited such places as: Alaska, Australia, China, Europe, New Zealand, Scandinavia, and Hawaii. Norbert loved his gardening, the great outdoors and all things in nature: searching for morel mushrooms, hunting pheasants and whitetail deer, and his favorite, fishing on the Sturgeon River in Northern Michigan for trout. Norbert was a devout Christian and was a loving and generous man, who was respected and adored by all who knew him. His remains have been placed into the two-person vault inside the mausoleum at the White Chapel Cemetery (Troy, MI) next to his first wife, Ann. Norbert C. Roth is now in Heaven.