Family of Chester DEVENOW and Maudette SHAPIRO

Chester Devenow, a titan of local industry, who almost single-handedly

created a Fortune 500 company and who later was called upon to mediate

many high-profile management-labor disputes, died of lymphoma Sunday,

November 6, 2005, at the Hospice Center of Toledo. He was 86. After

graduation from Detroit's Central High School, Mr. Devenow studied

music for a time at Juilliard School in New York City. Mr. Devenow got

a degree on political science from New York University in 1941 and

soon enrolled in Harvard's Law School.