Dieter Siegfried Buss

BUSS, DIETER S. Age 88 September 1, 2023. Beloved husband of Margarete. Loving father of Donna (William) Ritchie, Caroline (Randall) Seidel, Janet (Robert) Becker, Brenda (Michael) Bytner, Stephen Buss & Michael (Erin) Buss. Proud grandfather of William, Patrick, Kevin, Timothy, Allison, Zachary, Erika, Joseph, Natalie, Hannah (Jason), Eric, Sophia, Olivia, Bridget, Andrew and Maxwell. Dearest brother of Horst (Debra) Buss, Sigrid (Brian) Garrick & the late Helga (the late Gordon) Ross. Dieter Buss was born 88 years ago in Berlin Germany. He was born in a loving Family with his Father Albert, mother Lydia and siblings Horst, Helga and later Sigrid. The Family survived the chaos of World War Two and the aftermath including the struggle for basic sustenance during the Berlin Airlift. In 1953 He migrated to the United States on a boat with his grandfather, sister and brother and was later joined by his mother, father and younger sister in Detroit to start a new life away from war torn Europe. Near the closing of the decade, he married the great love of his life, Margarete Schelenz to whom he was married 65 years. They proved to be nearly inseparable, rarely being apart for the course of those 65 years having six children together. Despite being so close and the many challenges any relationship offers rarely had disputes and lived in mutual admiration and respect for one another. Margarete was his world as she was his. The six children they had together where a product of that love. He received his education on nights after the couple was married focusing on engineering and drafting which eventually lead to a 30-year career with General Motors. Dieter had a insatiable appetite for hard work, where others may find there bliss laying on a beach, he found his in building, molding, designing his world around him. He relaxed by educating himself and physically building things. His routine for many years was to work a full day at work, come home at 4 pm, change, and toil on one of thousands of projects he undertook in his life until nightfall. Consequently, over the years he built up a massive knowledge base whose growth only ended upon his passing. Truly a library of knowledge was lost with him. He had very strong convictions of how these projects should be executed, which was always to highest quality, but not with much ego. Despite accomplishing double what a single person may achieve over the course of their lifetime, consistent with his quiet deminer never boasted. The mirid of action undertook where to enhance his family, not with himself in mind. During the course of building his life with his family, he designed and built the family home of 49 years with the help of family. He and Margarette procured property in northern Michigan creating a cottage and a sprawling forest where before there where none. As his children grew, he strived for them to know the value of self-reliance while at the same time ensuring the knowledge to achieve that reliance was built. He, being quiet and introspective in natured showed his love always through selfless acts of service. He adored his 16 grandchildren communicating it through endless tractor rides and card games (regarding winning, he would show no mercy regardless the of age of his adversary) Dieter enjoyed the most simplistic, beautiful things in life, not status or procuring things but nature and being in it. He enjoyed fishing, especially Salmon fishing and hunting, both at the cottage up north. Every Sunday classical music played on the local German radio station would float through the house on the intercom system. He will be sorely missed by all whom were touched by his sweet consistent loving hand. Visitation Monday 4-8pm at Wujek-Calcaterra & Sons 54880 Van Dyke at 25 Mile Rd. (SHELBY TOWNSHIP). Funeral Tuesday Instate 10:30am at SS. John and Paul Church 7777 28 Mile Rd. (West of Campground) until time of Mass at 11:00am. Donations are welcome to SmileTrain or the Detroit Rescue Mission. Interment Mt. Vernon Cemetery. Share memories with the family at their "On Line Guest Book" @ WujekCalcaterra.com.

Dieter Siegfried Buss

August 25, 1935 - September 1, 2023