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Carr celebrated: 'Tough Chad will be with us forever'

Saline — Former University of Michigan football coach Lloyd Carr went home two weeks ago after celebrating an early Christmas with his 5-year-old grandson, Chad, and their families, and searched his dictionary.

Sometimes it is difficult to summon a definition for a word that we all know and frequently use but seldom truly understand: heartbreak.

Chad Carr died last Monday from an inoperable brain tumor 15 months after diagnosis.

Lloyd Carr, along with Chad’s other grandfather, Tom Curtis, like Carr a College Football Hall of Famer, joined with their children, Tammi and Jason Carr, to celebrate Chad’s life Sunday at Saline High School Performing Arts Center.