Elizabeth Endicott Rands

Mrs. Rands volunteered for many years, creating auction displays for The Grosse Pointe Academy’s annual Action Auction, The Children’s Home of Detroit and other local charitable organizations. In the 1980s, she volunteered with the hospice and pastoral care programs at Bon Secours Hospital in Grosse Pointe. Mrs. Rands was a supporter of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Planned Parenthood of Michigan and the Grosse Pointe Animal Adoption Society. She also was a lifetime member of Tau Beta Association.

Mrs. Rands attended Grosse Pointe Country Day School, Grosse Pointe University School and graduated from Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights, Ohio. She graduated with an associate degree from Briarcliff College in Briarcliff, N.Y., and spent a few years post college working at the Ted Bates Advertising Agency in Manhattan before returning to Michigan.

She loved her family, dear friends, pets, NASCAR and rock ‘n’ roll.

She is survived by her children, Barbara Rands Valente (ex-husband, Sergio Valente and fiancée, Margarida Ventura) and William Endicott Rands (Dianna Simpson Rands), as well as Stash Capponi, whom she loved like a second son; and her grandchildren, Rebecca and JJ Valente and Will and Charlie Rands. She also is survived by her beloved cat, Missy, and her granddog, Cinnamon. She was predeceased by her brother, Charles M. Endicott.