Funeral arrangements for the billionaire philanthropist and shopping mall mogul A. Alfred Taubman, who died of a heart attack in his Bloomfield Hills home on Friday, April 17, at the age of 91.
According to the Ira Kaufman Chapel — the company handling the services — a private family service will be held at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, April 21, at the Congregation Shaarey Zedek in Southfield, but the services will be streamed online. The interment will be at a private family service at Clover Hill Park Cemetery in Birmingham.
Following the ceremony, the family is inviting friends to join for a gathering at the Townsend hotel in Birmingham from 12:30-3:30 p.m. and from 5:30-8:30 p.m. Additionally, the family has set aside three hours on Wednesday, April 22, from 5:30-8:30 p.m., to welcome friends. A religious service will be held at the venue on both days starting at 7 p.m.
Taubman is survived by his wife, Judith Taubman, two sons William and Robert and his daughter Gayle Taubman Kalisman among many other family and friends.
In his lifetime, Taubman donated nearly $160 million to the University of Michigan. Two buildings on campus — the A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute at the U-M Medical School and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning — bear his name.
