Remembering and honoring 20-year-old Austin Duszynski of Seney, MI – Family and friends try to cope with his untimely death and are sharing memories of Austin’s kindness and smile – this following his tragic traffic accident

U.P. Breaking News Bulletin – 3-15-18 – 10:45 p.m. ET

Beloved Seney, MI youth remembered as kind, loving young man with family-values and an outdoorsman’s outdoorsman; fund set up to help family with funeral expenses

Accident victim Austin Duszynski 1

By Greg Peterson
U.P. Breaking News
Owner, News Director
906-273-2433

(Seney, MI) – Condolences and remembrances are pouring in for a beloved 20-year-old Schoolcraft County youth who was killed late Wednesday night in an eastern Upper Peninsula traffic accident.

The crash as reported about 11:30 p.m. ET, late Wed., night March 14, 2018.

20-year-old Austin Duszynski of Seney, MI is being remembered as a loving, caring young man – who was the consummate Yooper. His bond with the outdoors of northern Michigan was obvious in nearly every waking moment of his life, a love he shared with his tight-knit family and friends. 

Accident victim Austin Duszynski in Feb 15, 2018 Facebook post

Accident victim Austin Duszynski in Feb 15, 2018 Facebook post

Duszynski grew with the humble values that are still alive in the small town of Seney, MI in Schoolcraft County. He graduated from Newberry High School.

Austin Duszynski loved fishing, hunting and snowmobiling as much as – or more – than any youth who learns about life by growing up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

Marcy Barker has set up a funeral fund to help the Duszynski family and remembers the young man that touched their hearts.

Accident victim Austin Duszynski 1In the short time since his passing, the community has already shown its generosity through donations to the victim’s family.

Dusznyski leaves behind a sister, Chelsea.

Duszynski “loved ripping, rolling coal, hunting, fishing, family, and friends.” Barker wrote on the GoFundMe page set up for Austin.

“He was taken away to soon from all. I would like to ask for donations to help the family. Bless you all and thank you in advance.”
https://www.gofundme.com/d983k-funeral-fund-for-austin-duszynski

Funeral services have not been announced, but will be in the near future.
Duszynski was employed as a utility worker at Louisiana Pacific.

His untimely passing stands as a reminder to all about how fragile life can be.

“Please pray for my family, said cousin Renee Duszynski “We have lost a wonderful genuine young man. Twenty is too soon to be gone, and it’s hard when you feel the loss to understand why.”

Renee Duszynski reminded all of us to say “I love you” more often to the ones for whom we care dearly care – even if they know it and you’ve told them 100 times.

“I may not always tell my cousins how much I love them but I do,” she said “I am asking for prayers for my cousin and his family as they try to deal with this loss.

“It was always a pleasure having Austin in my home for a family dinner when he came down hunting. There will always be an extra place and giblets left over… Fly high Austin and give your granny a hug for me!”

Renee’s Facebook comments were echoed by many who cannot believe they lost their friend and family member.

Duszynski was a “genuine great guy with an infectious smile,” said Julie Mills-McAlpine, while explaining how he became a quick member of her family and outlined his kindness and fun he had with others including birthday parties.

The only occupant of his full-size pickup truck, Duszynski was ejected from his vehicle when it rolled over in a curve on Cheeseman Road in Moran Township in Mackinac County. He was not wearing a seat belt.
Alcohol was not a factor in the crash.

Deputies were assisted on the scene by Straits Area EMS, the St. Ignace City Police Department, Sault Tribal Police, Michigan State Police, the St. Ignace Fire Department, and the Mackinac County Victim Service’s Unit.

Paper Parody: Corporations Still Think They Are People: $100 Million Cash and Blame Battle Between Paper Making Giants Soon Enters 5th year Slicing Up the Financial Blame for the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site

Corporations Acting More Like Babies Than The “People” – That They Claim To Be:

Twin babies fighting for soother

Especially since the Paper Industry Giants may have killed people with “pollution” – and the Papers Giants Claim to be “People”

  Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Lawsuit #25

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Paper Giants Battle Over Blame and Expense of Polluting the Kalamazoo River, Surrounding Areas and Real People (Not Corps ) With Cancer-Causing PBCs

MLive story Kalamazoo River Superfund

Paper Industry Giants Duke It Out Over Who Was Worst of the Worst Polluter – Thus Who Picks Up Most of the Tab in Kalamazoo River Superfund Site:
Lawsuits filed in Federal Court in Michigan and Wisconsin – There’s a Tie to the Fox River Superfund Site in Green Bay

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Boxer graphic

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Lawsuit #8

In fight over who should pay for pollution – Arrogant Polluting Corporations Believe They Are People:

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Lawsuit #24

$100 Million Blame and Cash Battle Between Paper Making Giants Soon Enters 5th year Slicing Up the Financial Blame for the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site:

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Lawsuit #25

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Lawsuit #2

 Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Lawsuit #6

Are the Superfund Violators/Polluters near Lake Michigan a Pretext for What We Can Expect In a Few Years After Owners of the Eagle Mine Decide to Skip Town With Their Pockets Full – Sludging A Path For Similar Sulfide Mines Planned Along Lake Superior – Leaving a Toxic Mess That Is Cheaper to Litigate – Than Clean Up

EPA Photos Kalamazoo

In federal court these paper making corporations  – think they are people

Corporations believe they are ‘People’

Latest in $100 Million Battle Twixt International. Paper Giants on Kalamazoo River Superfund Site – litigation that spills into Fox River Superfund Site in Green Bay:

I fear that the Upper Peninsula Eagle Mine – and other sulfide (acid) mines like it – could be a Superfund-like site when the company sucks up all the valuable minerals it wants and THEN leaves.

We “Pray” That The Evil Corporations Will Not Pollute – and Corps. “Pray” Not to Pay:
Praying for Relief From Federal Judge

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Lawsuit #7

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GEORGIA-PACIFIC CONSUMER PRODUCTS LP, FORT JAMES CORPORATION, and GEORGIA-PACIFIC LLC

Plaintiffs

www.gp.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_James

Versus

NCR CORPORATION and INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.

Defendants

www.ncr.com

www.internationalpaper.com/us

****Notice these corps think they are people – smile

The Big Paper Boys Swing Their Branches and PCB Allegations Against Each Other: In the fight over money between paper industry giants

The case is about allocating responsibility for contamination … of the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site”

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Lawsuit #3

The plaintiffs (Georgia-Pacific) argue that the Kalamazoo River would not have been listed as a Federal Superfund site if “not for NCR’s use of PCBs in its CCP; and for the contamination of the Kalamazoo River by PCB Aroclor 1242 attributable to NCR broke and trim.

Georgia-Pacific filed the lawsuit to establish the liability of Defendants and determine their equitable costs of cleaning up the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site

Georgia-Pacific wants to require Defendants to pay their fair portion of past and future cleanup costs associated with the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site.

The suit was also filed due to “claims in this action arise from many of the same activities by the Defendants which are at issue in the case of Appleton Papers, Inc. and NCR Corporation v. George A. Whiting Paper Company for costs associated with the investigation and remediation of the PCB contamination in Fox River; and because the Defendants made arrangements in this District with brokers that ultimately resulted in the release of PCBs into the Kalamazoo River.

Georgia-Pacific is the corporate successor to Kalamazoo-area facilities that deinked and recycled PCB-containing NCR broke and trim.

Georgia-Pacific has paid in excess of $79 million to investigate and remediate the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, the company states.

NCR invented the PCB-containing Carbonless Copy Paper (CCP) that has caused the PCB contamination of the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, Georgia-Pacific alleges.

Plus GP alleges that NCR arranged for the disposal of PCB-laden waste from its own CCP converting operations.

Georgia-Pacific claims NCR arranged for the disposal of PCB-laden broke and trim from its contract coaters.

Contract coaters” are the companies that used NCR’s coating (using NCR’s specifications) using an NCR emulsion.

NCR is also the corporate successor to at least two coaters — the Wisconsin-based Appleton

Coated Paper Company (ACPC), and Combined Paper Mills, Inc. (aka Combined Locks Mill).

Those companies arranged for the disposal of PCB-laden broke and trim resulting from the coating of NCR CCP.

Waste paper from all these activities was recycled at facilities near the Kalamazoo River, with resulting releases of PCBs into the Kalamazoo River, according to Georgia-Pacific as it tried to put most of the blame and expense on the other paper giant:

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Lawsuit #1

NCR has paid nothing toward the cleanup, Georgia-Pacific cried.

The (once nature concerned) Michigan Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) conducted studies between 1972 and 1989 that “determined that certain areas in and around the Kalamazoo

River below Morrow Dam were contaminated with PCBs,” the suit states.

The Allied Paper Inc./Portage Creek/Kalamazoo River Superfund Site was declared a Federal Superfund site by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in August 1990.

In fact, the site was placed on the Superfund National Priority List (NPL).

In 1990, the site was listed by the MDNR as an environmental contamination site under the Michigan Environmental Response Act, the suit states.

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EPA identified Georgia-Pacific as a “potentially responsible party” (“PRP”) at the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site.

Georgia-Pacific is now the only remaining PRP left at the Site to provide ongoing funding to investigate and remediate the PCB contamination of the Kalamazoo River, due to the bankruptcies of other PRPs at the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, the suit states.

Only one other company, Weyerhaeuser Company, is currently involved in remedial activity – is only funding measures to remediate a landfill it owned, and to investigate and remediate a former paper mill it owned, the suit claims.

PCBs were introduced to Portage Creek and the Kalamazoo River largely through past discharges, releases, and disposal of PCB-contaminated solids and paper residuals by paper manufacturing operations on Portage Creek and the Kalamazoo River, the suit charges.

The Kalamazoo River Superfund Site currently includes five disposal areas, four paper mill properties, an approximately 80-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River from Morrow Dam to Lake Michigan, and a three-mile stretch of Portage Creek, the suit states.

There are several areas that need total cleanup:

Operable Unit 1 is the Allied Paper/Bryant Mill Pond Operable Unit

Operable Unit 2 (Willow Boulevard/A-Site Landfill)

A groundwater investigation was undertaken in the summer of 2009 at Operable Unit 2 (Willow Boulevard/A-Site Landfill),the suit states

In September 2009, a consent decree was signed between the EPA and Georgia-Pacific for design and cleanup at the Willow Boulevard/A-Site Landfill was approved by the Federal District Court.

This decree/settlement, among other things, obligates Georgia-Pacific to consolidate waste materials, construct a permanent landfill cap, and install a groundwater monitoring system.

Operable Unit 3 is the King Highway Landfill

The remedy involves the construction of a landfill cap, the seeding of the cap with vegetative growth, and the construction of a gas collection trench (under the control of the State of Michigan).

Operable Unit 4 is the Twelfth Street Landfill

In September 2001, EPA san agreement and the remedy includes excavation of PCB residuals that have migrated from the landfill and placement of those residuals back in the landfill. This work is conducted by Weyerhaeuser with oversight by EPA and MDNR.

Operable Unit 5 concerns the Portage Creek and Kalamazoo River sediments

In February 2007, EPA reached two settlement agreements with Millennium Holdings

LLC (which has since gone bankrupt) and with Georgia-Pacific.

The agreements were the result of two years of mediated negotiations between the possible responsible parties (PRPs) and various government regulators and entities, including the EPA and the State of Michigan.

Georgia-Pacific and Millennium agreed to perform sediment excavation in the Kalamazoo River near Plainwell, Michigan, the suit states.

Georgia-Pacific and Millennium agreed to conduct a Supplemental Remedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (Supplemental RI/FS) on the 80-mile stretch of the Kalamazoo River from Morrow Dam to Lake Michigan and Portage Creek from Cork Street to the confluence with the Kalamazoo River.

Georgia-Pacific’s Expenditures to Clean Up the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site:

Georgia-Pacific has spent at least $79 million dollars (as of Dec. 2010) to investigate and remediate the Kalamazoo River Superfund Site, and to investigate the liability of other potentially responsible parties, such as NCR and International Paper.

You can read the original:

Lawsuit Filed Between Paper Giants 12-3-10

Read or download the Georgia-Pacific vs NCR financial ruling 9-26-13

And read the latest filing of the salvos between these Paper Industry Giants.

Carbonless Copy Paper (CCP).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonless_copy_paper

http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/docs/2001-107/

http://www.google.com/patents/US2730457

http://news.ufl.edu/archive/1997/05/scientists-test-carbonless-copy-paper-for-sickening-side-effects.html

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144326/000114432613000031/R18.htm

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site

http://www.epa.gov/region05/cleanup/kalproject/index.htm

http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,4561,7-135-3304-84646–,00.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalamazoo_Superfund_Site

http://www.fws.gov/midwest/es/ec/nrda/KalamazooRiver

http://www.kalamazoorivercleanup.org

https://www.kzooriver.com/kalamazoo

http://www.epa.gov/region5/cleanup/kalproject/images/OUmap.gif

http://www.epa.gov/region5/cleanup/kalproject/photos.htm

Seeps at base of TP1, Elizabeth Copper Mine Superfund Site Vermont, USA

[Large version of seep photo]

Portage Creek – Kalamazoo River, Michigan Public Domain EPA

“Portage Creek – Kalamazoo River, Michigan” by EPA

www.michigan.gov/images/main_82481_7.jpg

“<a href=”http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portage_Creek_-_Kalamazoo_River,_Michigan.jpeg#mediaviewer/File:Portage_Creek_-_Kalamazoo_River,_Michigan.jpeg”>Portage Creek – Kalamazoo River, Michigan</a>” by EPA – <a rel=”nofollow” class=”external free” href=”http://www.michigan.gov/images/main_82481_7.jpg”>http://www.michigan.gov/images/main_82481_7.jpg</a&gt;. Licensed under Public domain via <a href=”//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/”>Wikimedia Commons</a>.

United States Damage Assessment, Remediation & Restoration Program

http://www.darrp.noaa.gov/greatlakes/kalamazoo

http://www.westonsolutions.com/projects/project_kalamazooriver.htm

http://www.terracontracting.net/Multimedia/Video/TabId/74/VideoId/6/Kalamazoo-River-Superfund-Site.aspx

Kalamazoo River Watershed Council (KRWC)

http://kalamazooriver.org/?page_id=217

The Environmental Law Reporter

http://elr.info/subject-matter-index-cases/allied-paper-portage-creek-kalamazoo-river-superfund-site-%28mich.%29/3384

http://upton.house.gov/uploadedfiles/05_13_2014_congressional_letter_to_epa_re_kalamazoo_superfund.pdf

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-6th-circuit/1022237.html

http://www.thefederalregister.com/d.p/2014-02-18-2014-03332

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1897/04-493R.1/abstract

https://www.msu.edu/user/giesy/Projects/Presentations/KZ-SS-BE-01.pdf

Fox River Superfund Site

http://www.epa.gov/Region5/cleanup/foxriver

http://www.cerc.usgs.gov/orda_docs/Assets/UploadedFiles/CaseDocuments/Assessment_Documents/WI_Fox-River_AR-PCBs-Pathways_1999.pdf

United States Department of Justice aka United States Justice Department

http://www.justice.gov/enrd/3643.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fox_River_%28Wisconsin%29

http://www.foxriverwatch.com

http://www.foxriverwatch.com/NCR_corporation.html

http://www.foxriverwatch.com/pcb_pcbs_sources_1.html

http://www.foxriverwatch.com/superfund_sediment_remediation.html

http://dnr.wi.gov/topic/greatlakes/greenbay.html

http://www.sevenson.com/index.php/project-summaries/fox-river-superfund-site/

Appvion, Inc. (formerly Appleton Papers Inc.)

http://www.appvion.com/en-us

http://www.appvion.com

https://www.linkedin.com/company/appleton

Appleton Coated

http://www.appletoncoated.com/index.php?GroupID=11

http://www.appletoncoated.com

http://www.appletoncoated.com/greenzone/index.php

Info on lawsuits:

http://www.law360.com/articles/213303/gp-wants-ncr-to-pay-for-mich-superfund-site

http://www.law360.com/companies/ncr-corporation/articles

http://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2013/09/hold_portage_creek_pcb_cleanup_1.html

http://michiganradio.org/post/federal-regulators-say-pcb-cleanup-kalamazoo-river-gaining-momentum

http://michiganradio.org/post/pcb-cleanup-continues-along-kalamazoo-river

http://michiganradio.org/post/kalamazoo-residents-struggle-epa-over-mount-pcb

http://michiganradio.org/post/epa-says-decision-about-kalamazoo-s-mount-pcb-will-come-summer

http://michiganradio.org/post/kalamazoo-rallies-pressure-epa-remove-hazardous-paper-mill-waste

http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1144326/000114432613000031/R18.htm

On September 26, 2013, United States District Judge Robert J. Jonker ordered that Defendants NCR Corporation and International Paper Company are found liable parties

Other litigation issues remain:

American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL)

http://www.acoel.org/file.axd?file=2013%2F10%2FGeorgia%2BPacific%2Bv%2BNCR.pdf

http://www.ncr.com/newsroom/resources/united-states-district-court-for-the-western-district-of-michigan-issues-decision-in-phase-i-of-kalamazoo-river-case

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site:

Hunsucker Goodstein Law

Federal Judge Finds NCR Corp. & Appleton Papers Inc. Liable For $950 Million in Cleanup Costs of Nation’s Largest Superfund Site (Mon, Oct. 3, 2011)

Philip Hunsucker

phunsucker@hgnlaw.com

(San Francisco, CA) – Federal judge rules NCR Corp. and Appleton Papers Inc. are liable for an estimated $950 million in cleanup costs and reimbursement of natural resource damages for PCB contamination at the nation’s largest Superfund site, located in eastern Wisconsin.

We are very pleased with this ruling,” said environmental attorney Philip Hunsucker, of Hunsucker Goodstein, who represented Menasha Corp.,

http://hgnlaw.com/about-us/news/bid/158025/Federal-Judge-Finds-NCR-Corp-Appleton-Papers-Inc-Liable-For-950-Million-in-Cleanup-Costs-of-Nation-s-Largest-Superfund-Site

http://www.pcmag.com/encyclopedia/term/47696/ncr-paper

Liberty Mutual Fights NCR On $79M Superfund Site Coverage

By Kathryn Brenzel

(March 28, 2013) – Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. on Wednesday urged a judge to declare that it doesn’t owe coverage to NCR Corp. for a $79 million cleanup of the Kalamazoo River Superfund site, saying the company’s comprehensive general liability policy wouldn’t cover costs stemming from its alleged role in the Michigan river’s pollution.

In a lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan, Liberty Mutual said it is not responsible for NCR’s portion of the cleanup and related defense costs, citing a pollution exception in the company’s insurance policy.

NCR was hit in 2010 by a suit from Georgia-Pacific Consumer Products LP, which sought contribution toward the cleanup of the Kalamazoo River, which cost Georgia-Pacific $79 million.

http://www.law360.com/articles/428041/liberty-mutual-fights-ncr-on-79m-superfund-site-coverage

http://www.epa.gov/region5/cleanup/foxriver/pdf/foxriver_cd_201010.pdf

Appleton Papers, Inc.

United States of America and the State of Wisconsin, Plaintiffs–Appellees, v. NCR Corporation, Defendant–Appellant

No. 12–2069 Decided: August 3, 2012

http://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-7th-circuit/1608058.html

http://fox11online.com/2014/05/15/objections-filed-to-proposed-fox-river-cleanup-settlement

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Lawsuit #13

Kalamazoo River Superfund Site Lawsuit #5

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Remembering Samantha “Sam” Lee Bonovich (1995 – 2014) – We Love You, We Miss You

A tribute to Samantha Lee Bonovich (1995 – 2014)

memorial 19-year-old Samantha Lee Bonovich (2)

Samantha collage

http://youtu.be/KNIaFAow50w

By Greg Peterson, Upper Peninsula Breaking News

(Ishpeming, MI) – A memorial has appeared along U.S.-41 in Ishpeming, Michigan – at the site of an accident that happened last week and took the young life of 19-year-old Samantha “Sam” Lee Bonovich of Ishpeming Township.

Samantha was born in Ishpeming on May 18, 1995 to Shawn & Chandra (Currie) Bonovich.

Sam graduated from Westwood High School, class of 2013. While in high school Sam was a member of the Drama Club, Key Club and Chorus.

She currently was attending Northern Michigan University, studying to become an RN.

Sam was also working as a cashier at Jubilee Foods.

Camping & fishing with Mom & Dad, going to movies, spending time with family and her close friends are a few of the things Sam enjoyed.

She loved to be around babies and she is missed by her canine companion Bodee.

http://www.meaningfulfunerals.net/home/index.cfm/obituaries/view/fh_id/11058/id/2623150

http://www.bjorkandzhulkie.com/home/index.cfm/obituaries/guestbook/fh_id/11058/id/2623150

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15077923/Bonovich_Samantha/Bonovich_Samantha.htm

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/15077923/Bonovich_Samantha/Bonovich_Samantha.mp3

In 2007, Samantha caught the biggest perch:

Second Largest Perch, 12 and younger–Samantha Bonovich, Ishpeming, 9.75″

Third Largest Perch, 12 and younger–Samantha Bonovich, Ishpeming, 9.625″

http://www.negauneeinvitational.com/2007_results.htm

Young Samantha gets biggest perch in 2007

Samantha was among those featured in a newspaper story on Westwood Drama Club – Photo by Johanna Boyle

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:fapQA_tVci4J:miningjournal.net/page/content.detail/id/568653/WHS-Drama-Club-to-stage-Improv.html%3Fnav%3D5001+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a

Samantha newspaper story on Westwood Drama Club by Johanna Boyle

Samantha newspaper story on Westwood Drama Club by Johanna Boyle longer

Samantha online social sites:

http://www.pinterest.com/samanthabronx

https://twitter.com/tearsinNewYork

http://notvine.co/user/975631736471990272/

Samantha Lee Bonovich

19 years of life

(1995 – 2014)

We Love You

We Miss You

Samantha was born in Ishpeming on May 18, 1995 to Shawn and Chandra Bonovich of Ishpeming

Watch the Tribute at Bjorke and Zhulkie Funeral Home

Sam is survived by her parents Shawn & Chandra Bonovich of Ishpeming, grandparents: Terry & Sharon Currie of Champion and George & Barbara Bonovich of Green Bay, WI, Donna Carter of Colorado Springs, CO, great grandfather George Bonovich Sr. of Ishpeming, great grandmother Mary Bonovich of Grand Rapids, MN, aunts & uncles: Tammy Bonovich of Colorado Springs, Tim Bonovich of Eden Prairie, MN, Terry Currie of Champion and Brenda Currie of Ishpeming, cousins & best friends Brooke Bartol & Emma Currie, along with other cousins, her God Parents Otto & Rogie Luoma and many great aunts & great uncles and many friends.

Sam was preceded in death by great grandparents: Patricia Bonovich, Mike Bonovich, Gene & Viola Currie, Harry & Ida Rolstone along with other family members.

Funeral services for Sam were  held on Wednesday August 6, 2014 at the Bjork & Zhulkie Funeral Home with Rev. D. Michael Carriere officiating.

Honorary Pallbearers were Nathan Pohlman, Addi Hollinshead, Alaina Pepin, Christina Mariani, Emily Bertucci, Brooke Bartol, Emma Currie, & Whitney Barry.

Sam’s obituary may be viewed at bjorkandzhulkie.com where relatives and friends may leave a note of remembrance.

The audio funeral service can be found here.

The tribute and memorial to 19-year-old Samantha Lee Bonovich of Ishpeming Township has appeared along U.S. Highway 41 at the spot where she was killed in an August 7, 2014 fatal accident.

Bonovich was turning left out of a Family Dollar parking lot between two National Guard trucks (that were stopped for the light) at about 10:30 a.m. – and was struck by an eastbound dump truck – that was approaching the light – and she attempted to go west on U.S.-41.

Bonovich was driving a 1999 Subaru was struck by a eastbound (in passing lane) 2004 Freightliner dump truck driven by 46-year-old Jeffrey Alan Johnson of Marquette who was treated and released at Bell Hospital.

Initial police findings blame Bonovich for the accident.

Upper Peninsula Breaking News wonders if her vision of the oncoming dump truck was blocked by the other stopped trucks – a sad accident for all involved.

News coverage:

http://abc10up.com/woman-killed-in-us-41-two-car-accident/

http://wnmufm.org/term/samantha-lee-bonovich

http://www.ironmountaindailynews.com/page/content.detail/id/548378/Fatal-crash-victim-ID-d.html?nav=5002

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