Douglas Kenneth Kuru, a former resident of Houghton and Lake Linden, passed away peacefully on Dec. 2, 2025, at Comfort Care in Bay City, Michigan.

He was born on April 1, 1947, to Kenneth and Dorothy (Seppala) Kuru, in Hancock. Doug spent his childhood years in Boston Location and moved to the farm on the Rauhala Road in his early teens.

He attended the E.B. Holman School and Houghton High School. At the age of 12, he developed his life-long passion for cars that included driving them, repairing them, restoring them and in later years simply tinkering and enjoying them. He was employed by Cohodas-Paoli Company until their closure and then worked for the Lake Linden-Hubbell Schools as a custodian and bus driver until his retirement.

He also enjoyed riding his Harley with the L.L. “gang

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