Lou Batori, Glen Arbor’s centenarian who was born in Budapest, survived the Russian advance during World War I, immigrated to the United States in 1929, made his career as a successful engineer, and downhill skied and motorcycled into his 100s, has died at age 107.
Courtesy of Interlochen Public Radio: Last week, a Glen Arbor resident won two medals in a slalom ski race, not so uncommon Up North. But this racer is 100 years old. Lou Batori has been skiing for 90 years. “You have to ski to stay young, or you have to be young to ski. Your choice,” Batori said last week, skiing at Nub’s Nob in Harbor Springs.