Obituary for Cree Summer Glavas
Cree Summer Glavas, 33, crossed over to paradise in the early evening of October 18, 2023, at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. Surrounded in passing by her parents, Tracy Mays and John Glavas, her beloved baby sister, Seneca Mays-Glavas, and her heart’s treasure and only child, Andrea Elena Hawkins, with the close support of a few relatives and close friends.
Cree is survived by many family members. She leaves to mourn, her mom Tracy Mays; dad John Glavas; daughter: Andrea Elena Hawkins; and her most beloved sister and closest friend, Seneca Mays-Glavas and her family, the young, Ariana Amor Garcia, and son, Emiliano Roman Garcia; and her paternal grandfather John James Glavas. Other family members that she leaves to cherish her memory include John Mays, Judith Mays, Esther Helms, Ralph Mays, Sharon Cole, Cathy Floyd, Christa Hodge, and Sophia Glavas.
Cree was preceded in death by family members, Esther Mays and Isiah “Bob” Mays, Evelyn Smalley, Linda Mays Lindsay, Robert A. Mays and Marion Crawford.
Cree was born April 9, 1990, in Detroit. She was a MPHS graduate and attended MJ Murphy Beauty college in Mt. Pleasant, studying Cosmetology. She was baptized in Christ by Pastor George B. Glass at her church home, Christian Chapel Church (“3C”), Southfield, Michigan. Cree was a SCIT tribal member. She loved all things artistic; she loved music, drawing, and made gorgeous dreamcatchers and marketed them online to a growing clientele. Cree was a tribal advocate and donor of life.
In her quiet hours, Cree embarked on a self-satisfying artistic entrepreneurship. Having a penchant for creativity, she made exquisitely beautiful Native dream catchers with a successful online market startup. Her dreamcatchers exhibited her unique personal pizzazz and were a beautiful mix of her innate Detroit urban glam combined with her Saginaw/Chippewa “rez” daringness and earthy Native spirit.
Cree always loved and was proud of all her ancestral roots-Chippewa, Black, and Greek from her Dad. All the cultures played nicely within her, contributing to her unique personality, charisma and spellbinding good looks. Behind the cool shades she often wore, were eyes that looked into your heart and spirit and beckoned you to come out and play. She had the innate ability and charm to woo one over to her side of the playing field for the sheer joy of the matter. Cree wasn’t afraid to go anywhere, help a friend in need, let her hair down or travel. She was a girl of true adventure looking for her heart’s home. For such a young person, she was often welcomed to make her home in many places. She visited several cities and states and resided with whole families who welcomed her as a daughter, cousin or cherished friend wherever she went.
Her life was boundless and without restraint. She richly lived every moment of her life, and she did it courageously and limitlessly. Wherever she found herself, she got there with a loving heart and a fierce but gentle desire to laugh, smile and taste the thrill of life in all its various colors and appeal. She would have it no other way.
So, as we find ourselves today bidding the impossible-to this beautiful soul, Cree Summer (Mays) Glavas, let us savor what she meant to each one of us. Give thanks to Creator God, the Father of all, for her impactful life and spirit. Join her family in prayer and appreciation for this beautiful being who gave us the fullest of her measure. Even at the end of her earthly journey, Cree was an organ donor, still caring for others’ lives, beyond her own and sometimes in spite of it.
Let us honor her memory with love for one another as Jesus' greatest commandment sweetly implored. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind…love your neighbor as yourself”-Matthew 22:36
Funeral Services for Cree will take place at Clark Family Funeral Chapel on Friday, October 27, 2023, at 1 p.m. with Fred Cantu officiating. The family will greet friends on Friday beginning at 11 a.m. until the time of the service. Memorial contributions may be made to the family, ℅ Clark Family Funeral Chapel, 114 S. Bradley, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 48858. Envelopes will be available at the funeral chapel.
Cree is survived by many family members. She leaves to mourn, her mom Tracy Mays; dad John Glavas; daughter: Andrea Elena Hawkins; and her most beloved sister and closest friend, Seneca Mays-Glavas and her family, the young, Ariana Amor Garcia, and son, Emiliano Roman Garcia; and her paternal grandfather John James Glavas. Other family members that she leaves to cherish her memory include John Mays, Judith Mays, Esther Helms, Ralph Mays, Sharon Cole, Cathy Floyd, Christa Hodge, and Sophia Glavas.
Cree was preceded in death by family members, Esther Mays and Isiah “Bob” Mays, Evelyn Smalley, Linda Mays Lindsay, Robert A. Mays and Marion Crawford.
Cree was born April 9, 1990, in Detroit. She was a MPHS graduate and attended MJ Murphy Beauty college in Mt. Pleasant, studying Cosmetology. She was baptized in Christ by Pastor George B. Glass at her church home, Christian Chapel Church (“3C”), Southfield, Michigan. Cree was a SCIT tribal member. She loved all things artistic; she loved music, drawing, and made gorgeous dreamcatchers and marketed them online to a growing clientele. Cree was a tribal advocate and donor of life.
In her quiet hours, Cree embarked on a self-satisfying artistic entrepreneurship. Having a penchant for creativity, she made exquisitely beautiful Native dream catchers with a successful online market startup. Her dreamcatchers exhibited her unique personal pizzazz and were a beautiful mix of her innate Detroit urban glam combined with her Saginaw/Chippewa “rez” daringness and earthy Native spirit.
Cree always loved and was proud of all her ancestral roots-Chippewa, Black, and Greek from her Dad. All the cultures played nicely within her, contributing to her unique personality, charisma and spellbinding good looks. Behind the cool shades she often wore, were eyes that looked into your heart and spirit and beckoned you to come out and play. She had the innate ability and charm to woo one over to her side of the playing field for the sheer joy of the matter. Cree wasn’t afraid to go anywhere, help a friend in need, let her hair down or travel. She was a girl of true adventure looking for her heart’s home. For such a young person, she was often welcomed to make her home in many places. She visited several cities and states and resided with whole families who welcomed her as a daughter, cousin or cherished friend wherever she went.
Her life was boundless and without restraint. She richly lived every moment of her life, and she did it courageously and limitlessly. Wherever she found herself, she got there with a loving heart and a fierce but gentle desire to laugh, smile and taste the thrill of life in all its various colors and appeal. She would have it no other way.
So, as we find ourselves today bidding the impossible-to this beautiful soul, Cree Summer (Mays) Glavas, let us savor what she meant to each one of us. Give thanks to Creator God, the Father of all, for her impactful life and spirit. Join her family in prayer and appreciation for this beautiful being who gave us the fullest of her measure. Even at the end of her earthly journey, Cree was an organ donor, still caring for others’ lives, beyond her own and sometimes in spite of it.
Let us honor her memory with love for one another as Jesus' greatest commandment sweetly implored. “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind…love your neighbor as yourself”-Matthew 22:36
Funeral Services for Cree will take place at Clark Family Funeral Chapel on Friday, October 27, 2023, at 1 p.m. with Fred Cantu officiating. The family will greet friends on Friday beginning at 11 a.m. until the time of the service. Memorial contributions may be made to the family, ℅ Clark Family Funeral Chapel, 114 S. Bradley, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan, 48858. Envelopes will be available at the funeral chapel.