Teri Muskovitz had plans to attend a luncheon reunion on Tuesday with friends she had made studying Hebrew at the Adat Shalom Synagogue in Farmington Hills.

The group of six women had forged such a special bond that they continued to keep in touch five years after they celebrated their Bat Mitzvah together, said Celia Lubetsky, one of the women in the Bat Mitzvah class.

''We were a very unusual class in that we were all independent and older and we became very close,'' she said.

Mrs. Muskovitz, who turned 38 on New Year's Day, and her husband, Jerry, lived in West Bloomfield with their 11-year-old son. She had been returning home from a business trip.

''She was a great mother. She was quiet in a gentle way,'' Mrs. Lubetsky said. ''She never raised her voice and her family always came first.''