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Portrait of Dawn Marie Drangmeister
In loving memory

Dawn Marie Drangmeister

September 22, 1969 – May 7, 2020
Lived 50 years
Salem Heights · La Porte, Indiana
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Dawn Drangmeister, 50, of La Porte, passed away peacefully at 12:51 a.m., Thursday, May 7, 2020 at Franciscan Health Hospital, Michigan City.

She was born September 22, 1969, in La Porte, Indiana, to Charles and Nancy (Johnson) Bunch.

Dawn loved being with family. She enjoyed cooking family size meals, turkey hunting and crafts.

On October 11, 1997, in La Porte, Indiana, she married, Patrick Drangmeister, who survives.

Also surviving are her parents, Chuck and Nancy Bunch; four sons, Patrick (Norma) Drangmeister, Matthew (Patty) Drangmeister, Cubby Lovekin and Kiel (Silvia) Lovekin; one brother, Rob Bunch; Now ten grandchildren, Mariah, Lyneiah, Aurorah, and Atlas Lovekin, Hunter and Addison Drangmeister, Destinee Chavez and Michael McCoy, and Jonathan and Cierra Smith; one great grandchild, Bryant Smith; and one special niece, Meghan.

Preceding in death were her grandparents.

Her loving father, Charles Bunch, has since passed.

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1969
Born September 22
1971
Dawn was 2 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida
1977
Dawn was 8 when Star Wars opened in theaters
1982
Dawn was 13 when "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" opened in theaters
1989
Dawn was 20 when "The Simpsons" debuted as a series
1995
Dawn was 26 when "Toy Story" became the first fully computer-animated film
2004
Dawn was 35 when Facebook was launched
2020
Passed away May 7, age 50
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