NORTHPORT - Michael Lazarescu, age 96, of Northport, Ala., passed away January 9, 2019 at Hospice of West Alabama. Services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, January 12, 2019, at Sunset Funeral Home with David Maxson officiating. Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Park with Sunset Funeral Home, a Dignity Memorial Provider, directing. Visitation will be one hour prior to services at the funeral home.
Survivors include his wife, Adriana Lazarescu; daughter, Alice Lazarescu; and sons, Andrew Peter Lazarescu and Adrian Constantin Lazarescu.
He escaped the tyranny of communism in Romania and immigrated to the United States in December 1968, working as a physician in New York, Cincinnati, Sylacauga and Tuscaloosa until the age of 67.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to Hospice of West Alabama.