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Tuesday, August 6, 2024
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Louis Albert Wolf of Vicksburg, MI passed away on Wednesday, July 31, 2024, at the age of 71 after battling with cancer. He was born in Mexico City, Mexico on November 16, 1952, to his French father Maurice Wolf Dolz and Mexican American mother Gloria Madero de la Fuente.
He was through and through an engineer having graduated from the French sponsored technical school C.E.N.E.T.I. in Mexico City with degrees in both Design and Industrial Engineering and worked in both areas for various companies. Having moved to Guadalajara, Mexico he was employed by General Instrument where he met his wife of 31 years, Nancy. He started his own Fire Protection Co., I.S.I. Wolf in Guadalajara where the family lived and their son Kevin was born until emigrating to Michigan in 2005. He was employed by Kaiser Aluminum in Kalamazoo until his retirement in 2019.
Louis and family loved to travel especially to areas where he made use of the 3 languages he spoke. He was always prepared for each trip with any tool, first aid or accessory anyone might need regardless of how many metal detectors he set off in airports. He could sew, glue, sculpt, rewire, or redesign any item whether it needed improving or not. He was a skilled wood carver and had belonged to the local Woodcarvers’ Guild.
He also practiced Tai-Chi twice daily for years. A gentle man well known for saving animals, repairing toys, sewing leather bags for everything and always helping others. He was community minded and supported the Community Gardens of Vicksburg and Vicksburg Farmers Market in multiple ways.
Louis was preceded in death by his mother and father, brother Alejandro Wolf, sister Gloria Wolf Martinez, and niece Michelle Wolf.
Left to cherish Louis' loving memory are his wife Nancy, his son Kevin (Holly) Wolf, his grandson Emilio Wolf, his sister Ceci Wolf (Miguel Padilla) of Guadalajara, his brother Mauricio Wolf of Guadalajara, his sister-in-law Vicki Chávez of Mexico City, his brother-in-law Gonzalo Martínez of Guadalajara, sister-in-law Jonatha Johnson of Mendon, MI, brothers-in-law Tom (Julie) Johnson of Grand Junction, CO and Paul Johnson of Kalamazoo, MI, and special friends Garrard and Moira McCleod.
In accordance with the family’s wishes cremation has taken place and a time for visiting will be held at Avink, McCowen & Secord Funeral Home, 409 South Main Street, Vicksburg, MI 49097, on Tuesday, August 6, 2024, from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Memorials made in Louis’ memory may be directed to South County Community Services, Generous Hands, or Rose Arbor Hospice of Kalamazoo, MI. Envelopes are available at the funeral home.
While at www.amsfuneralhomes.com please take time to sign Louis’ guestbook and/or share a memory with his family.
The Wolf family is being cared for by the Avink, McCowen & Secord Funeral Homes and Cremation Society, 409 South Main Street, Vicksburg, MI 49097 269-649-1697.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
4:00 - 7:00 pm (Eastern time)
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