In Memoriam

Edward Wrobel

Message from Tim Reed on May 15, 2020

Chris , if you are going to include the tragic death of Dennis Ball , and it certainly was tragic ... please also let us remember Eddie Wrobel...Sandy went through DeWitt Clinton with Eddie ... He was very well liked... Eddie was a North Park Junior High student who died a tragic death. if my memory is correct , the accident occurred in 7th grade... it still leaves a sad memory whenever it surfaces ...Eddie was in the recreation building at the skating ring on Prospect Street as I recall one winter day before or after skating on the rink... then the tragedy occurred... he climbed up on an area that had four feet vertical poles welded to tire rims and used to mark unsafe patches of ice for skaters ... somehow he slipped and fell backwards ... Eddie was impaled by a pole and did not survive the internal injuries...Eddie Rest In Peace...

 

Message from Lisa Siig on May 16, 2020

I remember that well. I think he was getting his hat someone hat thrown up there. The next day in art class Joe Whalen openly cried talking about the accident.

 

Message from Chris Dix on May 16, 2020

Aloha, Lisa and Tim, I have some "good" news, sort of, about Eddie---at the suggestion of Alan Thurston, I was able to determine from the Ancestry.com website that Edward L. (his middle name may have been Leo---the same as his father's first name) Wrobel passed away at the age of 14 on January 11, 1962 in Lockport which means his tragic accident at the Outwater Park skating rink happened when you must've been in eighth grade with him at North Park---under the circumstances, it's only right for us to add Eddie's name to our Class of 1966 roster . . . along with the names of Dennis Ball and Michael Isackson whose lives also were cut much too short while we were all growing up together in Lockport!!!

 

Message from Dan Fitzgerald on May 17, 2020

I still think of eddie from time to time. he and mike hanley and jimmy white were good friends. eddie was carefree and fun loving. the brutality of that accident still gives me shivers

 

Message from Chris Dix on October 24, 2021

Commemorative bricks honoring Eddie Wrobel and Michael "Mike" Isackson were placed in the Children's Memorial Park on October 23, 2021.

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