Family
Erma married Thomas Garrett and gave birth to two children in the early 1960s - Thomas Jr. and Sabrina. She later went to work for the Boysville Holy Cross Community Center - a Detroit organization that helps homeless and disadvantaged minority children. Erma Franklin was diagnosed with throat cancer in the spring of 2002 and died in Detroit, aged 64, several months later.
In addition to her siblings, Aretha, Vaughn, and Carl Ellan Kelley (her father's daughter by 12 year old Mildred Jennings), Franklin is survived by her two children; Sabrina Garrett and Thomas Garrett Jr. She is interred at Detroit's historic Woodlawn Cemetery on North Woodward Avenue.
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