THEILMAN, Minn. – More than 300 truckers in 82 trucks convoyed behind a hearse from the Lake City funeral of a 12-yea-old boy who aspired to be trucker to his burial in Thielman The convoy was half a mile long. Truckers were there from all over the Upper Midwest. Blaze Himl died a week earlier in a snowmobile accident. The body was carried in one of the trucks. Convoy organizer Erik Madison said “We’ll bring little Blaze home with what he loves, trucks you know.” At the funeral Blaze’s aunt Renay told about Blaze ’s traveling to California with his trucker-grandfather last summer. “His smile was never bigger than when he climbed in that truck.” she said.
