Necrology

Jason Forsythe Bloomberg '47

Nov. 21, 1947-Jul. 28, 2006

Jason Forsythe Bloomberg ’47, a former business executive, was born on November 21, 1925, in Battle Creek, MI. A son of Abraham Jason Bloomberg ’14 and the former Dorothy Forsythe, Jason Bloomberg grew up in Battle Creek and prepared for college at St. John’s Military Academy in Wisconsin. He attended Hamilton for a semester before withdrawing at the end of 1943. Soon thereafter he was called into military service. He saw action with the U.S. Army in France during World War II and earned the Purple Heart. After the war he returned to Battle Creek, where, in 1964, he succeeded his father as president of R.W. Snyder Co., manufacturers of fruit flavors for ice cream. He later operated the House of Ing restaurant in Battle Creek.

Jason Bloomberg engaged with pleasure in a variety of pursuits, from cooking to flying (he had earned a pilot’s license at the age of 16). His interest in aviation once even led him to create a faithful reproduction of a Fokker DR-1 Triplane. In addition, he had an interest in Tennessee walking horses.

Jason F. Bloomberg died at his home in Battle Creek on July 28, 2006. He is survived by his second wife, Susan J. Bloomberg. Also surviving are two sons and a daughter, Robert J., Ronald W., and Mary T. Bloomberg, born of his first marriage to Mary L. Bloomberg, and two stepchildren, two grandchildren, and a sister.

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