Remembering the loss of three young men who drowned on April 7, 1961
Sturgis Journal April 7, 1961, seems long ago to most people. For Anna Flowers, it is a date she will never forget. One that date, her husband, Edward Bauman, and her two younger brothers, Howard Richard (aka Dick) and Robert Vroman, drowned in a Sherman Township lake. Ed was 18 and about to become a father, Dick was 16 and Bobby, 13. They went spearing that Friday night at Quail Lake, with Larry Lung. Only Larry returned home. According to the Sturgis Journal's April 8, 1961, edition, they were in a rusty boat that recently had been repaired. The boat sprang a leak and sank. Subsequent Jou...
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