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Jamie Samuelsen's funeral was just like he was on radio: Smart, funny and full of stories

Jamie Samuelsen used to intercept the magazine at the mailbox.

It was People magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” issue.

He would print out a picture of himself and paste it on the cover, right over whoever had won that year. Then, he’d hide it in a stack of mail, leaving it for his wife, Christy McDonald, to find.

“Won it again!” he'd write every year on a sticky note.

“That was our Jamie,” McDonald said during her husband’s funeral on Monday afternoon at Holy Name Catholic Church in Birmingham.

Samuelsen, a beloved sports radio host in Detroit, died Aug.