He was not born in Detroit as it states. His maternal grandfather delivered him on their kitchen table in Logan, West Virginia in the middle of a thunder storm when the midwife didn't get there. His mother's name was Kathleen. His middle name was Dewey, after his Dad. His family later moved to Detroit.
He and wife Patti Smith lived in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, an eastern
suburb of Detroit, during their married years (1979-1994).
His memorial service was held at Detroit Mariner's Church - made
famous in the Gordon Lightfoot song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" - the same church in which he and Patti Smith had married 15 years earlier.