MMG - Muskegon Motorcycle Gang
A Thank You from the sisters!!!
MMG News/Media
MMG mentioned in Muskegon Bike Time article
Published: Friday, July 20, 2007 in the Muskegon Chronicle
Sisters, motorcycle gang form unlikely bond in Milwaukee
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MILWAUKEE (CNS) -- Don't let their veils and name -- Sisters of Charity of St. Joan Antida -- deceive you. Members of the Milwaukee order aren't just brides of Christ. They're biker girls. "We're part of a gang," the sisters laughed over coffee. They belong to the Sisters of the MMG (Muskegon Motorcycle Gang). When the Harley-Davidson 100th anniversary celebration rolled around in 2003, someone at St. Joan Antida High School, the all-girls high school on Milwaukee's south side sponsored by the order, suggested that the sisters open their grounds to Harley riders looking for a place to rest their heads during the festivities. The Muskegon Motorcycle Gang from Michigan took the sisters up on their offer. After bestowing on them the title Sisters of the MMG and bidding the sisters farewell in 2003, the unlikely friends stayed in touch, writing Christmas cards and e-mails. As bikers rolled into Milwaukee Aug. 30-Sept. 1 for the 105th Harley-Davidson anniversary, the MMG found their way back to the sisters for another weekend of fun and fellowship. "Hospitality is very important to our community," said Sister Theresa Rozga of their ministry to the riders.
Motorcycle crash claims local social worker JoAnn Corbin
Published: Tuesday, September 01, 2009, 8:46 PM
Lee Lupo | The Muskegon Chronicle
MUSKEGON -- A Muskegon woman well-known for her work at Community Mental Health,
organizing Steak 'n' Blues events, and raising money for charity with a local
motorcycle group has died from head injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident.
JoAnn Corbin, 56, was on the fifth day of what was to be a 10-day trip with her
husband, Patrick, and about 20 other members of the Muskegon Motorcycle Gang
when the accident occurred Aug. 19 near Sparta, N.C.
They were riding along the scenic Blue Ridge Parkway, and the group was traveling
slow, "gawking at the scenery," when another rider hit Patrick's motorcycle from
behind, he said. They were wearing helmets and all were experienced riders. He
described it as a freak accident.
Corbin, who was riding as a passenger with her husband, was airlifted to Wake
Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C., and spent more
than a week there, but her condition continued to deteriorate and she died Saturday,
Patrick said. They had been married for 17 years and he said she was "a great woman."
Corbin helped her husband organize the popular Steak 'n' Blues annual event for
the past 17 years. As members of the Muskegon Motorcycle Gang, she helped the
group raise money for local causes, including Make-A-Wish and Every Woman's Place
and Webster House Youth Services, Patrick said.
They traveled extensively throughout the United States by motorcycle, and she
loved nature, flowers and being outdoors, according to those who knew her.
After her memorial service -- 11 a.m. Tuesday at Central United Methodist Church,
1011 Second -- riders will take a short ride to Margaret Drake Elliott Park and
Pere Marquette Beach.
"She loved the bike," said her boss, Sue Hosler. "She felt free on it. She really
encouraged people to get out and experience their community and their world."
Hosler, community placement coordinator for Community Mental Health and manager
of its Clubhouse program, worked with Corbin for 18 of the 25 years that Corbin
was a social worker for the agency. Corbin spent the past 10 years as a
rehabilitation specialist for the Clubhouse program, which develops job skills
for people with mental illness.
Hosler considered Corbin a friend, and said she was extremely dedicated to her
clients. The Clubhouse serves 160 people, and she worked one on one to help them
build independent skills and reacclimate to working environments.
"She was a very strong advocate for community integration for people with mental
illness," Hosler said. "We're really saddened by her loss. It's going to be felt
by a lot of people."
Hosler said "she was very much a people person, loyal to her friends and had a real
joy for life." She also volunteered at the Frauenthal Center for the Performing
Arts and loved dining with the Recipe Club/Gourmet Girls.
Besides her husband, other survivors include: her son, Keith Lehmann, of Muskegon;
daughter Kris Burmeister and grandchildren, Jacqueline and Josiah, of San Antonio,
Texas; parents Paul and Nancy Hazekamp, of Muskegon; brothers Richard and
David Hazekamp, of Norton Shores; and a sister, Sandy Foster, of Holland.
E-mail Marla Miller at mmiller@muskegonchronicle.com
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