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Corewell Health receives $15 million gift for leukemia research BY TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN Tchristensen@candgnews.com
Trio of nurse sisters to ride in Thanksgiving parade BY DEAN VAGLIA
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METRO DETROIT — They were raised together, they grieved together and they learned together. Now, they’ll float together for America’s Thanksgiving Parade. Such is the life of the Sterner sisters: Alicia Sterner, Elizabeth Sterner and Karalyn Truba. The three nurses at Corewell Health’s William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak were selected to ride on the hospital group’s float in the Detroit parade. The Macomb Township sisters were selected by Lamont Yoder, presiSee SISTERS on page 17A
Harry Kirk Denler, pictured, gifted Corewell Health $15 million to enhance leukemia research. Photo provided by Corewell Health
leukemia so that others would not have to suffer from what he went through.” Denler was a graduate of the University of Michigan law school, although he never practiced law. Instead, he managed real estate in southeast Michigan and northern Ohio. See LEUKEMIA on page 4A
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Sisters Alicia, Elizabeth and Karalyn Sterner pose for a photo. The trio will be part of Corewell Health’s float in America’s Thanksgiving Parade.
ROYAL OAK — A $15 million bequest from the estate of Harry Kirk Denler will make a transformative difference in the leukemia research done at Corewell Health. Denler passed away in 2002 from leukemia at the hospital that is known today as Corewell Health William Beaumont University Hospital in Royal Oak. Ben Robinson, cousin of Denler, remembered him as a “great connector.” Robinson said that Denler was an only child but came from a large extended family and worked hard to keep them close, according to the press release. “Kirk wanted to make this gift because of the care he received. He didn’t have children, and he wanted his wife cared for,” Robinson said in a press release. “But after that, he wanted the rest of his estate to go to the William Beaumont University Hospital. It was an aspirational gift. He wanted to help find a cure for