Philip Bruce Wargelin of Northville, MI, beloved husband of Laurie Wargelin for 38 years, beloved father of Kristen Wargelin, Katherine Wargelin Allen, and Justin B. Wargelin, and beloved grandfather of Ashleigh and Shayne Mitchell and Jennifer and Linsey Allen, beloved brother of Carol Wargelin and John Wargelin, died early Friday, October 29th of natural causes. He was devoted to his family.


Mr. Wargelin was born in Ironwood, Michigan on June 24, 1936. He graduated from Pontiac Central high school in 1954 and the University of Michigan with a BS in Architecture and an MA in Urban Planning. After college, he worked with noted Texas-based Urban Planner, Sam Zisman, and later with Ann Arbor-based Johnson, Johnson, & Roy. In the 1970s he was director of the Garden Homes Neighborhood Development Program for the City of Ann Arbor, and in the 80s and early 90s he was a founder and principal of CRW Associates, a Detroit-based urban planning firm.

In retirement, he served on the Northville Township Planning Commission. He also completed market studies for state funding of over 40 senior and low-income housing projects associated with churches and hospitals within the city of Detroit.

Mr. Wargelin loved Lake Superior and hiking, kayaking, and photographing its shore every summer from a family camp on Keweenaw Bay. This summer, he and his wife Laurie, completed a small lake house on the Bay in Pequaming, MI. He was often referred to as "a gentle soul". Services will be held November 13th, at 1:00 PM at St. Andrews Episcopal Church, 306 N. Division Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104.

Memorials may be sent to St. Andrews Episcopal Church, (address above), to Friends of the Land of Keweenaw (FOLK), PO Box 213, L'Anse, MI 49946, or to the Ann Arbor Parkinson's Group 2278 W. Ann Arbor Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48103.

Arrangements by Potti Funeral Directors.