Indiana funeral set for congresswoman killed in crash

GRANGER, Ind. (AP) — The funeral for Indiana Republican U.S. Rep. Jackie Walorski can be held subsequent week in her dwelling state of Indiana, the place she and three different individuals had been killed in a head-on freeway collision.

The funeral can be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Granger Group Church, Palmer Funeral Houses mentioned on its web site. A visitation can be held on the church on Wednesday from midday till 7 p.m.

Walorski, who was 58, was in an SUV with two members of her workers on Wednesday when it crossed the median of a northern Indiana freeway for unknown causes and collided with an oncoming automobile close to the city of Wakarusa, the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.

Walorski, her 27-year-old staffer Zachery Potts of Mishawaka, who was driving, and her 28-year-old communications director, Emma Thomson of Washington, D.C., all died, as did the lady who was driving the automobile struck by their SUV.

Potts was Walorski’s district director and the Republican chairman for northern Indiana’s St. Joseph County.

Walorski, 58, was first elected to symbolize northern Indiana’s 2nd Congressional District in 2012 and was in search of reelection this yr to a sixth time period within the solidly Republican district. Walorski was among the many Home Republicans who voted towards certifying the Arizona and Pennsylvania electoral votes for President Joe Biden following the Capitol revolt.