Pamela Marie Gegesky

Pamela Marie Gegesky passed away March 24th, 2026 at Midnight at the age of 71.

She is preceded in Death by her Father, Raymond, her Mother, Irene, and her brother, Ronald. She leaves behind her husband, Scott and her daughter Megan (Brandon) and a hoard of friends she's had since kindergarten.

Born September 26th, 1954 to Raymond Kateu and Irene Millos in Dearborn Heights, Michigan. She graduated from Fordson High School in Dearborn Michigan in 1972. She was an avid lover of sports, playing field hockey and softball in high school, and later taking up racquetball, tennis, skiing, scuba diving and golf.

She spent her entire career at Ford Motor Company where she met her husband, Scott in 1978. They married in 1985 and spent a wonderful 41 years married. Pamela was the 4th generation in her family to work for Ford Motor Company, following her great grandfather, her grandfather and grandmother, and her own mother and father. She is a 2nd generation American, following a lineage of Romanian immigrants here in Detroit, Michigan.

Pamela's childhood was dotted with friendships, and fun. Whether it was summers at Camp Vatra near Jackson, Michigan with her church, or days spent with her friends and family. The stories she has carried with her are endlessly funny and full of warm memories.

While everyone remembers Pam as a vibrant and fun person, she had been quite ill for a long while. Starting in 1974 with Hodgkin's Lymphoma and ending here in 2026, after an arduous 4-year battle with a myriad of illnesses. Nevertheless, she never gave up on anything. Learning to ski in 1980, she broke her ankle in Vail, Colorado. A year later she was racing downhill skiing in Snowmass Village, Colorado. She was most at home in the mountains, and the Gegesky family tradition of getting your nickname on a black diamond slope was born when she took her daughter down her first black diamond in 1997; Madwolf in Big Sky, Montana.

Pamela also had a love of scuba diving, where she both learned to swim, and learned scuba simultaneously. As part of a diving team, she would go on to help discover 13 wrecks in Lake Huron and is featured in Dossin Great Lakes Museum.

We remember her today, and forever, as an incredibly brave, beautiful, and elegant woman, a patron and lover of the arts, and a fierce supporter of her family. She adored holidays and had many traditions, whether it being collecting Santa Bears from Hudson's, going all out for Halloween and having the best candy house on the block, or covering the house in pastels for Easter.

Pamela will be buried at Great Lakes National Cemetery in Holly, Michigan. A celebration of her life and a memorial will be held in May at St. George Romanian Orthodox Cathedral in Southfield, MI.