Barbee Resident Perishes In I-69 Crash
A crash on I-69 near Marion Tuesday afternoon left one woman dead and two communities mourning.
Dixie Burgauer, 57, of Seminole, Fla., and also of Sechrist Lake, Warsaw, was killed when her vehicle left the interstate and crashed into trees where it erupted in flames. Burgauer was following a second vehicle, driven by her husband, Mike, at the time of the crash. He told police his wife suffered from a medical condition that may have contributed to the accident.
Mike and Dixie Burgauer were said to be headed to Florida from their cottage on the Barbee Chain of Lakes for a funeral when the crash occurred.