Daniel Lee Banaszak Sr.

Daniel Lee Banaszak Sr. was a 50-year-old member of the Pullman / Lee Township area community whose life centered on the people and places of southwestern Allegan County. Public records and local reporting identify him by name and age and place him in Lee Township near Pullman; those details confirm he was a longtime presence in the small communities around 55th Street and the surrounding rural roads.

While publicly available records about Daniel’s private life are limited, the paper and local reporting show that his death on August 6, 2020 touched people beyond the immediate neighborhood. Over the years his name appears in local notices and later in legal filings initiated by his estate — an indication that family members sought to protect his memory and pursue accountability after his death. In 2023 and later, his estate pursued civil claims related to the weapon used in his killing, reflecting the family’s ongoing efforts to address the consequences of his loss.

Because no family-published obituary or funeral-home memorial matching his full name and the exact date of death was found in online obituary databases, this remembrance focuses on the human fact that Daniel was a real person known in a small Michigan community. He is recorded in local news and county records, and his passing prompted both criminal prosecution and later civil actions — but those legal developments are part of a larger story: that a person who belonged to a family and a community is gone.

This page honors Daniel by acknowledging the life behind the public record. Even where details are sparse in the public domain, the presence of formal filings and local notices shows there were people who cared enough to act on his behalf. May this remembrance stand as a quiet acknowledgement that Daniel mattered to his family and neighbors, and that his memory is held by those who knew him.