Throughout their years together, Don loved to take his family on memorable trips including camping in the Rocky Mountains, Canada, going out east and to California, many ski trips and countless vacations to Spider Lake in Traverse City, where they spent time in the summers and winters in the cottage Don and Pat built. Later, when Don was assigned to the Kalamazoo area, he and Pat moved there. The owner, Kurt Simon was a mentor to Don and a great influence. Adult life consisted of working for Simon Brothers as a wholesale food representative to many area restaurants. Keeping with family tradition, he and Pat sent their children to Catholic Schools. Together they raised four beautiful children Judy, Jim, Diane and Karen. The two of them hit it off and were happily joined in marriage the summer of 1955 on July 23rd at St. Betty worked with Pat Lekarczyk and fixed the two of them up with a first date on the memorable New Year’s Eve of 1954. While working on the line, he was able to choose his very own car a convertible! Don met the love of his life through his sister, Betty.
During the summer months, he would return home to work at Studebaker. During his college days, he was an active member of the Kappa Delta Rho and maintained strong relationships with his brothers from the fraternity for many years. A proud recipient of the GI bill, Don went on to study business at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana and graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics with a minor in Spanish. After high school, he volunteered for the Army and was in the Army Air Corps serving as military police and also as a mechanic. They had no children of their own and treated Don like a son, even buying him his own horse! Don was very involved in Boy Scouts as a kid and played football for Riley High School, where he later graduated. For a few years he went to live with his Uncle Fred and Aunt Grace, his grandparent’s sister. When the tough economic times of the Depression years hit, he and his sibling were separated. His father worked for a paper company and his mother worked at a local shoe factory.
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With the media focused on jazz music and celebrities, especially sports heroes and movie figures, George and Mary (Fuscik) Dice welcomed home a newborn son, Donald born on Jin Mishawaka, Indiana.ĭon was the oldest child and grew up in South Bend, Indiana. The Roaring Twenties was a period of sustained economic prosperity with a distinctive cultural edge. He was a believer in all people and loved life! Don’s memories will be carried on through many generations to come and his warm spirit will be deeply missed. He believed in the importance of teaching his children and grandchildren the values of being strong, being respectful and being responsible. Look for other Loaded Dice dates to fill in the schedule soon!Į-mail Joe Ferguson for more info or booking.Donald Dice had a strong sense of character, a wonderful sense of humor and loved his family greatly. Now we're back playing together as the original 4-piece Loaded Dice Band.ġ/14/05 Kalamazoo State Theatre - Opening for Holmes Brothers - 8:00 I was with them almost 10 years before leaving for a year or so. Look for more Unleashed Dates coming soon.
Steve Kamerling on bass and vocals, (also with Pieces Of Dreams Band).ĭave Cleveland on keyboards and vocals, (also with Seventh Son Band). Joe Ferguson on harmonica and vocals, (also with Loaded Dice Band). Steve Vandenberg on guitar and vocals, (also with Los Bandits Band).ĭan Diaz on drums, (also with Pound 'N Beers Band). Whether on stage or in the studio, these guys are a real inspiration to me. And that's how Unleashed Band came about. So we started writing and recording some songs together. We realized that we shared a lot of the same musical tastes, and also that we were all in a bit of a rut with our own bands. During several recording sessions at John Stites' Arcadia Recording Studio in Kalamazoo, Michigan, some of my favorite area musicians and I showed up at the same time on other people's and each other's projects. And I also enjoy collaborating with as many other musicians as I can on stage and in the studio. I sing and play harmonica in Unleashed Band, and Loaded Dice Band on a regular basis. I really have no idea what a blog is all about, but I'm going to try and use it to share my bands' news and schedules.
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