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FILE - In this March 26, 2019 file photo, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson announces he will not run for an eighth term as Oakland County Executive in Waterford, Mich. Patterson has been diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. A spokesman says Patterson has died at his suburban Detroit home months after announcing he had pancreatic cancer. Spokesman Bill Mullan said the 80-year-old Patterson died Saturday, Aug. 3, at his Independence Township home. He was halfway through a seventh term leading the affluent county, but said in March he would not seek re-election next year. (Jose Juarez/Detroit News via AP)

Services set for Oakland County chief L. Brooks Patterson

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FILE - In this March 26, 2019 file photo, Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson announces he will not run for an eighth term as Oakland County Executive in Waterford, Mich. Patterson has been diagnosed with Stage 4 Pancreatic Cancer. A spokesman says Patterson has died at his suburban Detroit home months after announcing he had pancreatic cancer. Spokesman Bill Mullan said the 80-year-old Patterson died Saturday, Aug. 3, at his Independence Township home. He was halfway through a seventh term leading the affluent county, but said in March he would not seek re-election next year. (Jose Juarez/Detroit News via AP)

Longtime Oakland County chief L. Brooks Patterson dies at 80

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Oakland County chief has cancer, will not seek re-election

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Suburban Detroit official ‘furious’ about article

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Mayor, council leader hope for Patterson apology

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