Public viewing for Four Tops’ Duke Fakir to be held at Motown Museum on Thursday

A public viewing for the late Four Tops singer Duke Fakir will be held from noon to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Motown Museum, his family announced Friday.

Fakir’s body will lie in repose in the atrium of Hitsville Next, the museum expansion space next door to the original Motown studio where he and his fellow Tops recorded many of their biggest hits in the 1960s.

Fakir's family said Friday "the public is invited to honor the life and legacy" of the lifelong Detroiter, who died Monday at his home of heart failure. Fakir, 88, was the last surviving original member of the Four Tops, one of Motown’s cornerstone groups.

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Thursday’s public viewing will be the first ever at the Motown Museum, which was established in the mid-1980s.

The museum is located at 2648 W. Grand Blvd., Detroit.

After initially planning a private funeral service, Fakir's family said Saturday it has chosen to open it to the public. Billed as a celebration of life, the service will take place at 11 a.m. Friday at the 1,500-capacity Hartford Memorial Baptist Church, 1800 James Couzens Freeway, Detroit. It will follow a family hour that starts at 10 a.m.

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