Wisconsin woman remembers father lost in Edmund Fitzgerald sinking 51 years ago

A Wisconsin woman is remembering her father, Oliver “Buck” Champeau, one of 29 crew members who died when the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior on November 10, 1975. Champeau, a merchant marine from Sturgeon Bay who worked as the ship’s third assistant engineer, was 41. His daughter Debbie Gomez-Felder was 17 when he died and says the loss has stayed with her throughout her life.