Funeral services for Richard Lee Blake, 53, of Pax, will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Long Branch United Methodist Church with the Revs. Glen Wriston and Harmon Davis officiating. Interment will be in the mausoleum at Sunset Memorial Park.
He died in a Huntington hospital Wednesday at 4:10 p.m. after a long illness.
A disabled miner and a retired employee of the Fayette County Board of Education, Blake was born at Pax, April 14, 1920, the son of the late Charlie and Clara Brunk Blake.
He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Long Branch United Methodist Church.
Surviving him are his wife, Virginia Martin Blake; three sons, R. Douglas, Beckley; Danny, Mount Hope; and Frankie, at home; two brothers, Leonard of Australia and John, Washington, Pa.; six sisters, Mrs. Bert (Opal) McNeely, and Mrs. Coy (Beulah) Frazier, both of Pax, Mrs. Carl (Rossettious) Jeffrey, Biloxi, Miss., Mrs. W.C. (Ruby) Tyree, Parkersburg, Mrs. Gene (Myrtle) Stressman, Abilene, Tex. and Mrs. Fred (Charlotte) Severance, Cincinnati, Ohio; and three grandchildren.
The body is at the Tyree Funeral Home in Mount Hope where friends may call from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.
-Raleigh Register, Thursday, January 17, 1974
He died in a Huntington hospital Wednesday at 4:10 p.m. after a long illness.
A disabled miner and a retired employee of the Fayette County Board of Education, Blake was born at Pax, April 14, 1920, the son of the late Charlie and Clara Brunk Blake.
He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Long Branch United Methodist Church.
Surviving him are his wife, Virginia Martin Blake; three sons, R. Douglas, Beckley; Danny, Mount Hope; and Frankie, at home; two brothers, Leonard of Australia and John, Washington, Pa.; six sisters, Mrs. Bert (Opal) McNeely, and Mrs. Coy (Beulah) Frazier, both of Pax, Mrs. Carl (Rossettious) Jeffrey, Biloxi, Miss., Mrs. W.C. (Ruby) Tyree, Parkersburg, Mrs. Gene (Myrtle) Stressman, Abilene, Tex. and Mrs. Fred (Charlotte) Severance, Cincinnati, Ohio; and three grandchildren.
The body is at the Tyree Funeral Home in Mount Hope where friends may call from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.
-Raleigh Register, Thursday, January 17, 1974
Funeral services for Richard Lee Blake, 53, of Pax, will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Long Branch United Methodist Church with the Revs. Glen Wriston and Harmon Davis officiating. Interment will be in the mausoleum at Sunset Memorial Park.
He died in a Huntington hospital Wednesday at 4:10 p.m. after a long illness.
A disabled miner and a retired employee of the Fayette County Board of Education, Blake was born at Pax, April 14, 1920, the son of the late Charlie and Clara Brunk Blake.
He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Long Branch United Methodist Church.
Surviving him are his wife, Virginia Martin Blake; three sons, R. Douglas, Beckley; Danny, Mount Hope; and Frankie, at home; two brothers, Leonard of Australia and John, Washington, Pa.; six sisters, Mrs. Bert (Opal) McNeely, and Mrs. Coy (Beulah) Frazier, both of Pax, Mrs. Carl (Rossettious) Jeffrey, Biloxi, Miss., Mrs. W.C. (Ruby) Tyree, Parkersburg, Mrs. Gene (Myrtle) Stressman, Abilene, Tex. and Mrs. Fred (Charlotte) Severance, Cincinnati, Ohio; and three grandchildren.
The body is at the Tyree Funeral Home in Mount Hope where friends may call from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.
-Raleigh Register, Thursday, January 17, 1974
He died in a Huntington hospital Wednesday at 4:10 p.m. after a long illness.
A disabled miner and a retired employee of the Fayette County Board of Education, Blake was born at Pax, April 14, 1920, the son of the late Charlie and Clara Brunk Blake.
He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Long Branch United Methodist Church.
Surviving him are his wife, Virginia Martin Blake; three sons, R. Douglas, Beckley; Danny, Mount Hope; and Frankie, at home; two brothers, Leonard of Australia and John, Washington, Pa.; six sisters, Mrs. Bert (Opal) McNeely, and Mrs. Coy (Beulah) Frazier, both of Pax, Mrs. Carl (Rossettious) Jeffrey, Biloxi, Miss., Mrs. W.C. (Ruby) Tyree, Parkersburg, Mrs. Gene (Myrtle) Stressman, Abilene, Tex. and Mrs. Fred (Charlotte) Severance, Cincinnati, Ohio; and three grandchildren.
The body is at the Tyree Funeral Home in Mount Hope where friends may call from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday.
-Raleigh Register, Thursday, January 17, 1974
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