Alfred P. Blake 1934 - 1997

BLAKE, SCHUTTPELZ

Posted By: Connie Swearingen-Volunteer (email)
Date: 7/19/2014 at 20:17:25

24 October 1997

Alfred P. Blake, 63, of Sioux City died Thursday, Oct. 23, 1997, at a Sioux City hospital.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Larkin Northside Funeral Home, with the Rev. Robert Schimmel, pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church, officiating. Burial will be in Hite Cemetery at Whiting, Iowa.

Visitation will be one hour prior to the service.

Mr. Blake was born April 1934, in Bridgeport, Conn., the son of Alfred P. and Lillian Blake. He graduated from Bridgeport High School. He served in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force. He came to Sioux City in the mid 1960s.

He married Loretta Schuttpelz on Feb. 19, 1966, in Sioux City. He was employed as a maintenance worker with Sioux City Transit Company, retiring in 1986. He was Catholic.

Survivor include his wife; a son and his fiancee, Shane Blake and Denise Dawdy of Sioux City; a daughter and her husband, Wanda and Aaron Abraham of Sioux City; three grandchildren, Wayne and Angela Blake and Kristine Tweet; two brothers, George and Norman Blake, both of Stratford, Conn.; and a sister, Lillian Becker of Stratford, Conn.

Pallbearers will be Shane and Wayne Blake, Carl and Walter Schuttpelz, Aaron Abraham and Dennis Langley.