Many of you will remember “Dom”, the friendly driver of the American Ice Cream Truck that has served our communities for the past couple of Summers.
WMOK was sad to learn early Sunday that The American Ice Cream family is mourning the sudden death of our friend and former colleague Dominik “Dom” Faciano, who died Tuesday September 28, 2021 in a plane crash near Eagle River in northern Wisconsin.
Dominik was from Elk Grove Village in the Chicagoland area. He obtained his pilot’s license and graduated in May from SIU’s School of Aviation program. He had accepted a job with Surdex Corporation, an aerial digital mapping company in Chesterfield, Mo. He was one of two passengers in one of their planes that crashed on Tuesday, along with the pilot. There were no survivors.
Over the past year, Dom was instrumental in expanding our reach to more neighborhoods in southern Illinois and northwest Kentucky. He initiated routes in Sparta, Anna, Jonesboro, Dongola, Cypress, New Grand Chain, Ohlmstead, Joppa, Karnak, Metropolis, Brookport, Vienna, Golconda, Rosiclare, Elizabethtown, Old Shawneetown, Shawneetown, Junction, Ridgeway, Equality and Paducah, KY.
Many neighborhoods will enjoy the benefits of the ice cream truck coming to their town for generations because of Dom’s efforts.
We would ask everyone to keep Dom’s family, and the other two individuals’ families, in your thoughts and prayers, as they deal with the sudden loss of their loved ones. Dom was 22.
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