Frank D. Bloeman

Frank D. Bloeman

The following unidentified newspaper article was found in a scrapbook owned by Town Historian Richard Schmal. A relative of another victim of the crash added: "You might want to date this article. Frank died on 11/11/55. My mother died in the same accident. She was Evelyn Shupe Bruhn who was going to be married to him."

Former Lake Resident Killed in Auto Crash

A former Lake Dale resident was killed in an auto accident near Valparaiso Friday.

Frank D. Bloeman, 43, lived at Lake Dale for about 14 years prior to his wife's death last December. She died of cancer. In June he sold his house and took his children with him to Valparaiso to live with his parents.

He was killed in a two car head-on collision four miles west of Valparaiso. Four others were killed in the same accident.

He is survived by his three children, his daughter Vivian, 19, and two sons, Dee, 9, and "Pinky," 5. They are being cared for by their grandparents in Valpo.

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Last updated on February 8, 2010.

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