PO Box 1711
Traverse City, MI 49685
Phone: 231-709-2704

Memoriam

Reflections of Rich Tomey

Rich Tomey was the kind of guy that when you said Rich everyone knew who you were talking about. He did not need explaining who he was he was Rich the person who you called for help. Rich was like a surrogate father to the young friends at Jubilee House and a best friend to those who were older and had been on the streets for a long time. He understood homelessness and addiction and had untold compassion for those who suffer from it. Rich was part of the “3 Amigos” of the early Safe Harbor days when it was… Read More »


Anthony G. Ciccone | 1956 ~ 2023

Anthony Gerard Ciccone passed away in Suttons Bay, Michigan on February 24, 2023 at the age of 66. The first of six children born to Madonna (Fortin) and Silvio Ciccone, Anthony seemed in many ways a character from a time other than his own: an insatiable reader possessing of a restless intellect ––a deep lover of music with a wanderer’s spirit –– it isn’t hard to imagine he’d have preferred walking through a woods bantering with Thoreau, or playing sidekick to Jack Kerouac; and as such, an earlier era might well have been kinder in receiving his anomalous gifts. A… Read More »


David Houseman

David was a gentle man. He came to us in a time of great need and after lots of soul searching, he managed sobriety for several months at the house. He had done so well that he decided to move on to more permanent living arrangement and was looking to get back to work. He roomed with Marvin who was also a DH resident that graduated to a more permanent sober living housing opportunity. Sadly David passed away in his apartment towards the end of 2022. David’s quiet and gentle soul will be greatly missed.


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