Blake, Merle Loylo 1903-1951

BLAKE, WANDERSEE, KELLOGG

Posted By: Reid R. Johnson (email)
Date: 3/12/2015 at 13:22:33

Cedar Rapids Gazette, Wed., 13 June 1951.

Volga- Services were held Tuesday for L_ylo (Looks like Leylo or Loylo.) Blake, 48, killed Saturday in a fall down an elevator shaft at a Cream of Wheat mill in Minneapolis where he worked 15 years. Burial was at Minneapolis.

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Added by S. Ferrall 3/12/15:

Merle Loylo Blake, oldest son of Leon and Jessie Tomkins Blake, was born May 18, 1903, at Volga, and lived there until the death of his mother in 1919.

He graduated from the Strawberry Point high school in 1922, and later taught school near Osterdock. He went to Minneapolis in 1929 and had been employed at the Cream of Wheat Corporaton building ever since.

In January 1937, he was united in marriage to Meta Wandersee of Buffalo, Minn.

He died June 9, following a fall of two stories down a vertical escalator in the Cream of Wheat building.

Besides his mother, he was preceded in death by two brothers, Milburn in 1940 and Merlyn, who was killed in World War II in 1944, also his father, Leon Blake, of Guttenberg in 1949.

He is survived by his wife of Minneapolis, his step-mother, Mrs. Hallie Blake of Guttenberg, a brother, Lt. Dean Blake of the U.S. Navy, now in Africa; one sister, Mrs. Ray Kellogg, of Strawberry Point, and other relatives.

He was a member of St. John's Lutheran church, Washburn Park at Minneapolis. Funeral services were conducted Tuesday at Werness Brothers funeral chapel by his pastor, the Rev. John Rilling and burial was in Sunset Memorial Park in Minneapolis.

~The Clayton County Register, June 28, 1951