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Chad Blooming
May 12, 2007

WOOSTER -- Chad Neil Blooming, 52, of Wooster, died Friday, May 11, 2007, at his home.
Friends will be received at McIntire, Davis & Greene Funeral Home, 216 E. Larwill St., Wooster,
on Sunday, May 13, from 3-5 p.m.
A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated Monday at 10 a.m. at St. Mary Catholic Church with
the Rev. Father Daniel Reed officiating.
Those who wish may make contributions to the ALS Association, Northeast Ohio Chapter, 2500
E. 22nd St., Cleveland 44115-9907, or Hospice & Palliative Care of Greater Wayne County, 2525
Back Orrville Road, Wooster 44691 or to the Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns
Hopkins, 100 North Charles St., Suite 408, Baltimore, Md. 21201.
Born March 11, 1955, in Cleveland, he was the son of Thomas and Cornelia (Pogany) Blooming.
He was a support administrator for Cuyahoga County Board of Mental Retardation
Developmental Disabilities.
He was a member of St. Mary Catholic Church. He was an active hockey player from an early
age. Chad established a Web site to update people of his condition and to give hope to others,
(chadscorner4pals.com).
According to Chad's wishes, we are to celebrate his life so no one is to wear black.
Surviving are his wife, Ellen Pill, whom he married June 28, 2002; daughter, Danya Blooming of
Wooster; two brothers, Thomas (Wendy) Blooming of Bessemer, Mich., and Charles (Linda)
Blooming of Lake Charles, La., and a sister, Sister Mary Catherine Blooming of Pittsburgh, Pa