Gerald Tuchow

1930 - 2015

1930 - 2015
Gerald Tuchow, beloved husband, father, grandfather, friend and neighbor, was a prominent lawyer in Detroit and the Downriver Community of Flat Rock for over 50 years. He helped the injured and disadvantaged obtain justice in the courtroom. He instilled this passion for social justice in his children.

Mr. Tuchow was the rock of the Tuchow family. He and his wife of 58 years, Marilyn, raised five children in Lafayette Park in Detroit and later in an 1830 farmhouse in Oakland County.

He graduated from Central High in Detroit and won state-wide awards in interpretive reading of poetry. He graduated from Wayne State University and after his military service earned a Law Degree from the University of Michigan.

He was Chairman of the first Ethics Commission of the City of Detroit, Chairman of the Michigan state Teachers Tenure Commission, Chairman of the First Historic Preservation Advisory Commission of Detroit, and was a delegate to Democratic national conventions in the 60's and 70's, and President of the Flat Rock Rotary Club.

With his passion for theater, he served as President of the Players Club in Detroit. He and his brother, actor Michael Tolan, set up an annual student award at Wayne State for poetry and theater.

Mr. Tuchow is survived by his wife Marilyn Alice Spiro Tuchow, his children, Jonathan Tuchow, Matthew and Nicola Tuchow, Lincoln and Kathy Tuchow, Gabrielle and Montgomery Gillard and Victoria and Leon Mualem, as well as his seven grandchildren: Noah and Jonah Tuchow, Bella and Levi Mualem and Benjamin, Isabelle and Sophia Gillard.

In place of flowers, donations can be made to the Gerald Tuchow Fund for Camp Michigania, the Gerald Tuchow Scholarship Fund at Wayne State University, or to the Players Club Endowment Fund in his name.

Funeral services will be held at Ira Kaufman Chapel at 11 A.M. on Friday, August 7th. A full obituary is at www.irakaufman.com