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Virginia Sue Bjick

    Virginia Sue Bjick was born on October 11, 1944, the daughter of Arthur and Clara Bjick.  She married Bruce Ayan Blake on February 1, 1964, in Kankakee.  Virginia died June 21, 1964, and was buried in Memorial Gardens in Kankakee.

Obituary
Brook Reporter
Brook, Indiana
July 2, 1964

LAKE VILLAGE - Relatives from here who attended the funeral Wednesday of Mrs. Virginia Sue Blake, 19, of Kankakee, were Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mannings, Mrs. Audrey Jackson, Mrs. Leila Clark, Mrs. George Sheppard, Mrs. Blance Hogan and Walter Parmley.
    Mrs. Blake was born in Kankakee October 11, 1944, the daughter and only child of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Bjick.  She was married February 1, 1964, to Bruce Blake of Kankakee and spent two weeks and two days enjoying the apartment they had furnished before she was stricken with cancer and was hospitalized in Kankakee and Chicago until two weeks before her death when she was brought back to the home of her parents.  The minister who married Virginia and Bruce officiated at her funeral in the church where they were married.  Burial was in a Kankakee cemetery.
    Mrs. Bjick is a cousin of the women from Lake Villege.
Virginia Bjick