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In Memory

Bruce Bernard Anglemyer - Class Of 1963 VIEW PROFILE

Bruce Bernard Anglemyer

Bruce Bernard Anglemyer
 

Jan. 24, 1945 - Oct. 31, 1994
 

SOUTH BEND - Memorial services for Bruce B. Anglemyer, 49, of Rocky Mount, N.C., formerly of South Bend, who died Oct. 31 in the American Eagle Flight 4184 crash near Roselawn, Ind., were in First Presbyterian Church, Rocky Mount. Memorial contributions may be made to Westminster Presbyterian Church.

Mr. Anglemyer was a treasurer and certified public accountant with Fast Food Merchandisers, a division of Hardee's, Rocky Mount. He was born Jan. 24, 1945, in South Bend.

On June 29, 1969, in South Bend, he married Sandra Michailoff. She survives with two sons, Jon and Bradley, both at home; his mother and stepfather, Mary and Arthur Bauernfeind of South Bend; and a brother, Roger of Rockford, Mich.

He was a graduate of Clay High School and Ball State University, Muncie, Ind.

He served in the Army Reserve.

 

CRASH ANSWERS TO TAKE TIME * FRIENDS, KIN RECALL VICTIMS

November 2, 1994 | South Bend Tribune (IN)

Author/Byline: MICHAEL A. SLATIN Tribune Staff Writer | Page: A1 | Section: nation

736 Words

 

As Arthur Bauernfeind watched television in his South Bend home early Monday evening, the programming was interrupted by a news bulletin about the crash of American Eagle Flight 4184 in northwest Indiana.

Bauernfeind knew his 49-year-old stepson, Bruce B. Anglemyer, was supposed to be on a plane to Chicago. Bauernfeind hesitated telling his wife that her son might have been on the plane that crashed.

''I sat here, and when I heard that, I was afraid to tell her,'' the 88-year-old Bauernfeind said Tuesday afternoon. ''And I didn't. I waited until Sandy called this morning.''

Sandra AnglemyerBruce's wife, called the Bauernfeinds on Tuesday morning to tell them that Bruce had been killed in the crash.

American Eagle Flight 4184 crashed Monday afternoon in a northwest Indiana field en route to Chicago from Indianapolis. All 64 passengers and four crew members were killed.

Among those killed were Anglemyer, a former South Bend resident who lived in Rocky Mount, N.C., and Tony Moore, a 26-year-old former Mishawaka resident who lived in Seattle. David Shellberg, a former Granger resident who lived in Norman, Okla., also was killed.

A Purdue University meteorology graduate, the 25-year-old Shellberg spent the weekend attending Purdue homecoming activities in West Lafayette.

Barbara Jemielity, principal at South Bend St. Joseph's, said Shellberg played in the jazz and marching bands, appeared in school plays and was a member of the Science Club. He was a Eucharistic minister and Senior Leader at the school and made the honor roll all four years.

Rev. Daryl Rybicki of St. Hedwig Catholic Church, a friend of the family, believes the Shellbergs moved from Granger to Oklahoma in the late-1980s.

On Tuesday, family and friends locally remembered Anglemyer and Moore.

Don Gerstbauer graduated with Moore in 1987 from Marian High School in Mishawaka. The 25-year-old Gerstbauer, who teaches English at Marian, spent this past weekend with Moore at a wedding in Batesville, Ind. Gerstbauer and Moore served as groomsmen in the wedding of Gerstbauer's younger brother.

Moore was on his way back to Seattle on Monday when the plane went down.

''I think, as my wife pointed out to me this morning, God called us all together this weekend so we could say goodbye. And I think she put that rather well,'' Gerstbauer said. ''When I think about it, Tony is just one of those people who shouldn't have died.''

Moore's mother, Connie, lives in Mishawaka. She is the director of the YMCA of Michiana's Urban Youth Services program. Following in his mother's footsteps, Moore was the director of a youth development program through the YMCA in Seattle, Gerstbauer said.

Gerstbauer said Moore, a graduate of St. Francis College in Fort Wayne, had a knack for lifting people's spirits - especially when he flashed that smile.

''He had one of those electric personalities. He could make anyone happy,'' Gerstbauer said. ''Everybody remembers his smile. He had this great, big smile. Nobody can remember him any other way when they think about him.''

Gerstbauer said Moore was engaged to be married next year.

While Moore had an uncanny smile, Anglemyer had the uncanny ability to make people smile. Glen Neely graduated with Anglemyer in 1963 from what was then known as Washington Clay High School.

''He was a comedian. He had jokes he was telling. He was always upbeat. Bruce was never down,'' Neely said. ''He was always a positive person. He was the kind of guy that always had a smile and made people laugh.''

Anglemyer's mother, Mary Bauernfeind, said her son made her laugh just this past weekend when he visited South Bend. Anglemyer, a Ball State University graduate, lived in North Carolina with his wife and two sons, 21-year-old Jon and 17-year-old Bradley.

A treasurer with the Rocky Mount-based Hardee's Food Systems Inc., Anglemyer was in Richmond, Ind., on Saturday for business. He then drove to South Bend to visit his mother and stepfather.

On Monday morning, he drove from South Bend to Indianapolis, where he boarded American Eagle Flight 4184.

After church Sunday morning, Anglemyer and his mother and stepfather went to brunch. Several of those small jelly packets were sitting on the table. The 78-year-old Mary Bauernfeind remembers laughing at something her son said about those jelly packets, which contained ''mixed fruits,'' according to the labels.

''He said, 'You know, when I retire, I'm going to buy an orchard to grow all these different kinds of apples and put them in these little containers.' That was just another one of his jokes,'' Mary Bauernfeind said. ''And he had us laughing so hard.''

 

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