The Detroit News - September 6, 2002
Lawrence H.J. Valade, educator, Lamphere schools superintendent
By Kim Kozlowski / The Detroit News

ROYAL OAK -- Lawrence H.J. Valade spent Sunday surrounded by his friends and family, celebrating his and his wife's 60th anniversary.
The couple raised four children and enjoyed traveling throughout the country and Europe.
Mr. Valade, an educator and longtime superintendent of Lamphere Public Schools in Madison Heights and Troy, died from lung cancer on Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2002, at his son's home in Macomb Township. He was 85.
"He was just great," said his oldest child, Maureen. "Everyone loved him. He was everyone's best friend. He would do anything for anybody."
Mr. Valade began his career in education as a teacher in Highland Park and later served as a principal and assistant superintendent in Oak Park public schools.
He later served for nearly two decades as superintendent of Lamphere schools before retiring in the mid-1980s. He was also a consultant to Michigan State Senate Education Center.
Mr. Valade served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. The Army sent him to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and trained him in meteorology for weather stations.
After the war, he remained in the reserves for 26 years, serving at Selfridge Air Base in Harrison Township and retiring as a lieutenant colonel.
Mr. Valade was loyal to his home in Royal Oak. In his free time, he served for years on the board of the South Oakland County Credit Union.
Survivors include his wife, Helen; two daughters, Maureen and Marjorie; two sons, Richard and Dennis; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
A funeral Mass was to be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. today in St. Paul of Tarsus Catholic Church, 41300 Romeo Plank in Clinton Township. Burial was to be in White Chapel Memorial Cemetery in Troy.