Profile: The Indianapolis Star

Memoir helps widow cope after IndyCar driver’s death

Photo by Robert Scheer/IndyStar
Photo by Robert Scheer/IndyStar

In this article, I profiled Tonya Bergeson-Dana, an Indianapolis entrepreneur and professor who is writing a memoir about the death of her husband, IndyCar driver Paul Dana. Bergeson-Dana found out she was pregnant with her first son the same day of her husband’s fatal crash 10 years ago. Now, she is the co-owner of the Carmel play cafe Urban Chalkboard, and teaches Communication Sciences and Disorders at Butler University.

The article ran online Oct. 7, 2016, and fronted the Living section of the Sunday paper Oct. 9, 2016.