LANSING, MI (AP)-- Governor Rick Snyder has ordered U.S. flags at the Michigan Capitol to be lowered to half-staff following the death of former state Senator Walter H. North.
Flags will be lowered Wednesday in honor of the former Republican senator from St. Ignace. He died Friday at age 81.
North was elected to the state Senate in 1994 and served the 37th District for two terms. He helped expand the St. Ignace municipal marina and several health care and public safety facilities.
He was executive secretary of the Mackinac Bridge Authority for nearly a decade and served in the Korean War with the U.S. Air Force.
A funeral service is scheduled for Wednesday at the St. Ignace United Methodist Church.