Ypsilanti man who died in bike crash was cancer survivor, business owner [Video]

YPSILANTI — It had become a daily routine for Maurice Williams to ride his bicycle to Ann Arbor. On some days, he would travel over five miles into the town and back to his Ypsilanti home. He preached to his family the importance of physical exercise and wanted to embody his words.

That was Williams’s motto. A lively man filled with personality, Williams would remind his six children of various life lessons.

“Everybody in the community felt his presence,” Paris Allen, Williams’s oldest daughter, said. “There’ve been so many people… who came up to us and said they only met our dad a few times, but he made such an impact on their lives.”

Williams died June 3 when he was struck by a vehicle while riding his electric bicycle. He was 64.

He was at a crosswalk when a car driving east on U.S. 12 hit him at the …