Personal Life
Levi Stubbs and his wife Clineice were married from 1960 until his death. He had five children. He was diagnosed with cancer, in 1995, and later he was no longer able to tour with the group after a stroke. Stubbs died in his sleep on October 17, 2008, at his home in Detroit. Like the majority of Detroit celebrities, Stubbs is interred at Detroit's historic Woodlawn Cemetery across from the Michigan State Fairgrounds.
His brother, Joe Stubbs, was a member of 100 Proof Aged In Soul, The Falcons, The Contours and The Originals and one of his cousins was Jackie Wilson.
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