Grosse Pointe Farms flags are at half-mast this week to honor the city’s longest-serving city council member, who died on Friday after a battle with lung cancer.

Peter Waldmeir, 65, served on the Grosse Pointe Farms city council in several terms from 1995 to 2019.

Waldmeir was almost two years into his latest council term when he died. He served on the city council from 1995 to 2001, then in another stint from 2003 to 2019.

A University of Michigan graduate, Waldmeir was a lawyer of 35 years with Michigan-based firm Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, where he became a litigator after working for the U.S. Department of Justice.

“Peter will be profoundly missed, and the firm’s attorneys, staff and management extend our deepest condolences to his family, particularly his wife, Sandra, and daughters, Sara and Charlotte, as well as our colleagues who were fortunate enough to work with Peter and call him a friend and the clients to whom he was deeply committed,” Miller Canfield CEO Michael McGee said in a statement.

Waldmeir is survived by his wife, Sandra, daughters Sara and Charlotte, stepson Brent Michael Reno and grandson Jackson, as well as his father Pete Waldmeir, a former Detroit News reporter and columnist. Waldmeir also leaves behind sisters Patti and Lindsey Waldmeir, brother Christopher Waldmeir and extended family.

In his time in city government, Waldmeir was also Grosse Pointe Farms’ chairman of the Parks & Harbor and Communications committees and served as the city’s mayor pro tem from 2003-05. Prior to his 1995 election to the Grosse Pointe Farms council, Waldmeir also served the Grosse Pointe city council.

“Beyond his incredible skills as a member of City Council, he was a friend," Grosse Pointe Farms Mayor Louis Theros said in a statement. "I personally will be forever grateful for his support and counsel over the years and will miss his mentorship. He loved this community and his contributions will be felt for generations to come.”

Service times and funeral arrangements are incomplete.

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