Janis Colman, a resident of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, died on December 26th, 2025 at the age of 77. Funeral services arranged by The Dorfman Chapel.

Location of Service:

The Dorfman Chapel- main chapel (map to our Chapel)

Date of Service:

Sunday December 28th, 2025

Time of Service:

2:00 PM  

Interment at:

Adat Shalom Memorial Park Cemetery, 28500 6 Mile Rd, Livonia, Michigan

Officiant:

Rabbi Aaron Bergman  

Shiva Information:

The family will be sitting through Tuesday evening at the residence: 4550 Quarton Rd. Bloomfield Hills MI 48302 Phone: (248) 670-6500.

Religious services will be held Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings at 7:00PM.

Shiva Hours:
Sunday- following the interment until 8:00PM
Monday and Tuesday- from 3:00PM until 5:00PM, then 6:00PM until 8:00PM.  
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Charitable contributions:

Michigan Psychoanalytic Foundation
32841 Middlebelt Rd., Suite 411
Farmington Hills, MI 48334
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Family Members:

Janis L. H. Colman died on December 26th, 2025 at the age of 77. Jan, as she was so widely known, was a most remarkable woman who had an astounding number of friends and acquaintances. She was a natural at making friends, even with people she hadn't known before. She could chat up anyone. And she was the most caring person imaginable, as her husband could attest to, as well as many others. So many people considered her the go-to person for so many things.

Unfortunately for her, she had a very unhappy first marriage which ended in divorce, after having a child, her daughter, who gave her two grand-daughters, whom Jan cherished deeply, as she also felt towards her daughter. But Jan thought she would never find love for herself. That feeling continued for about 18 years following her divorce. But then one day she noticed that a man had looked at her profile on J-Date, a Jewish web site for single people looking to find a partner. So she wrote an E-mail to the man, whose name is Mike. The man had been widowed for a number of months, and was looking to find a partner. In her E-mail she wrote, "You can never have too many friends." The man felt very intrigued by that statement, because he really needed a friend at that time, and had been feeling very lonely. He wrote back to her that he would like to meet her. They struck up an E-mail correspondence which lasted a few months before they met in person. He invited her to have dinner with him at her then favorite restaurant, which happened to be Bonefish, in Novi. They spoke to each other quite a while. Then they returned to her condo, where they continued to speak with each other, until the man began to cry. Almost imperceptibly, she saw this, and moved very slightly in his direction with a look of great concern on her face, as if she wanted to hug him. She didn't, but he saw this movement on her part, and then she brought him some Kleenex. The next weekend they went to his favorite restaurant. A relationship began to develop between them, and it grew and grew. After a number of months, as winter was approaching, she told him that she should move in with him so that he wouldn't have to drive to her condo in the winter weather. He agreed. Two years later, they married. Jan knew that she had found love. And so did Mike.

Jan also leaves behind her daughter, Julie Turner, and her son-in-law, Brad, and her two grand-daughters, Phoebe and Randy. Jan's mother, Frances Holtzman, is 107 years old now. Also she leaves behind her older sister, Marsha Adelson and her husband Sheldon Adelson, and her younger brother, Bruce Holtzman. To be sure, Jan further leaves behind literally hundreds of friends who know what a valuable person Jan has been in their lives. Her death is an extremely sad occasion for so many people.  

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