Alfred P. Blake 1934 - 1997

BLAKE, SCHUTTPELZ

Posted By: Connie Swearingen- Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/17/2018 at 13:47:58

Sioux City Journal
October 1997

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

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Larkin Northside Funeral Home, with the Rev. Robert Schimmer, pastor of St. Joseph Catholic Church officiating. Burial will be in Hite Cemetery at Whiting, Iowa. Visiting will be one hour prior to the service.

Mr. Blake was born April 1, 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 February 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 fiancée, 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.