James Dee Blasko, Vietnam War CasualtyPorter County Data on Vietnam War Casualties . . . .
James Dee Blasko
Specialist 4th Class, HHC, 5th Infantry, 1st Battalion
Date of Birth: November 8, 1948
Date of Death: May 1, 1969
Cause of Death: Suicide
Hometown: Valparaiso
Vietnam Veterans Memorial: Panel 26 West, Row 89
Newspaper Notices:
Notified of Son's Death In Vietnam
Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Blasko, 1607 Elm, were notified Thursday of the death
Sunday in Vietnam of this son, Sp-4 James Dee Blasko.
Young Blasko was serving in Vietnam with the U. S. Army Infantry. He had been in
the service since March 1968.
Surviving besides the parents are three sisters. Nancy, Joann and Linda, all at
home, and three brothers, William, Chesterton, Ronald and Ricky, both at home.
Arrangements are incomplete pending arrival of body.
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Source: The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana; May 9,
1969; Volume 41, Number 263, Page 1, Column 8
Vietnam Victim's Rites Set
Services for Sp-4 James Dee Blasko, 20, 1607 Elm, who died May 4 in Vietnam,
will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Wetmore Funeral home.
The Rev. L. E. Myers, church of the Nazerene, will officiate.
Burial will be in Graceland cemetery. Full military rites will be conducted by a
contingent from Fort Benjamin Harrison.
Friends may call at the funeral home this evening and until time of services
Wednesday.
Born in Mishawaka Nov. 8, 1948, he was a son of Frank W. and Ann (Jerichow)
Blasko. They were notified of his death Thusday.
A resident of Valparaiso for one year, coming from Portage, where the family
resided for nine years, he was a 1967 graduate of Portage High school. Following
graduation, he was employed at a retail store in Gary.
He had been in military service since March 15, 1968 and in Vietnam since
November of 1968.
Surviving besides the parents are three sisters, Nancy, Joann and Linda, all at
home; three brothers, William of Chesterton, and twins Ronald and Ricky, both at
home.
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Source: The Vidette-Messenger, Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana; May
13, 1969; Volume 41, Number 266, Page 1, Column 4
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Information abstracted and transcribed by Steven R. Shook