Gloria Marie Cantelon

Gloria Marie (Hoyt) Cantelon passed away peacefully on December 9, 2024. She was born in Buffalo, New York on February 13, 1928 the only child of Harry Westin Hoyt and Irene Harriett (Westphal) Hoyt. She is survived by her devoted children Susan (Lance) Schuhmacher and Roger (Tracy) Cantelon, and her grandchildren Jordan (David) Kesh, Taylor Cantelon and Christian Schuhmacher. She is predeceased by her loving husband of 63 years, Edgar Albert Cantelon and her parents.

At an early age Gloria displayed artistic and intellectual skills well beyond her time, advancing two grades during her middle school years. She was also the adventurous sort, crossing the frozen Niagara Falls as a teenager. During World War II Gloria worked in a photography studio in Buffalo owned by her uncle, assisting in the processing of photographs and she also modeled.

Near the end of World War II Gloria’s parents moved to Detroit, Michigan where she graduated from Detroit’s Northwest High School. After graduating she worked as a clerk in an insurance office then left and began working as a commercial artist. She produced several magazine covers, advertisements and managed the General Motors Buick advertising account for her employer. In 1948 she met her future husband Ed at a Lawrence Institute of Technology ballroom dance and they were married in Detroit on August 25, 1951.

One of the highlights of Gloria’s life was she earned a pilot’s license and co-piloted various airplanes with her husband. Together with their young family they enjoyed flying to air shows and visited friends and relatives in the States and Canadian Provinces.

Gloria spent most of her working life as the CEO of Broadcast Measurements, a business her and Ed formed. In 1955 the couple built a house in Bloomfield Township where they resided until their kids were grown. They built another home in Clarkston where they lived until Ed’s passing in 2016. For the last 8 years of her life, Gloria was living in an assisted living facility in White Lake Township.