GRACE EVA BLACKLEDGE
Grace Eva Blackledge, age 85 passed away at Woodland Hospice in Mt. Pleasant, MI on Monday, February 9, 2009. Funeral Services were held at 1 p.m. Thursday, February 12, 2009 from Campbell-Stocking Family Funeral Home, Farwell. Pastor Jim Young officiated. Burial followed in Mt. Pleasant Memorial Gardens.
Grace was born in Clare County, the daughter of Arthur and Grace (Monroe) Sprague on March 20, 1923. She married Arnold Lee Blackledge on Sept. 30, 1939 in Isabella County.
She was a homemaker and loving mother to her three children. Grace enjoyed the outdoors, and was an avid hunter, trapper, and fisherwoman. She played the fiddle, accordion, banjo, and mandolin. She performed with a group of musicians called the “Honeybees” at lodges and nursing homes in the area. She and her husband loved to dance, including square dance. Grace was known for her “green thumb” as witnessed by her beautifully landscaped yard, and flowers.
She is survived by her husband, Arnold Lee Blackledge; two sons, Arnold Lee and wife Geraldine of Florida and King and wife Mary Sprague of Farwell; three sisters, Birdie Kelly of Harrison, Louise and husband Arnold Crook of Hillsdale, Lola Armstrong of Midland; 6 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were entrusted to Campbell-Stocking Family Funeral Home, Farwell. (The Clare County Review – Clare, MI – 13 February 2009)
Grace Eva Blackledge, age 85 passed away at Woodland Hospice in Mt. Pleasant, MI on Monday, February 9, 2009. Funeral Services were held at 1 p.m. Thursday, February 12, 2009 from Campbell-Stocking Family Funeral Home, Farwell. Pastor Jim Young officiated. Burial followed in Mt. Pleasant Memorial Gardens.
Grace was born in Clare County, the daughter of Arthur and Grace (Monroe) Sprague on March 20, 1923. She married Arnold Lee Blackledge on Sept. 30, 1939 in Isabella County.
She was a homemaker and loving mother to her three children. Grace enjoyed the outdoors, and was an avid hunter, trapper, and fisherwoman. She played the fiddle, accordion, banjo, and mandolin. She performed with a group of musicians called the “Honeybees” at lodges and nursing homes in the area. She and her husband loved to dance, including square dance. Grace was known for her “green thumb” as witnessed by her beautifully landscaped yard, and flowers.
She is survived by her husband, Arnold Lee Blackledge; two sons, Arnold Lee and wife Geraldine of Florida and King and wife Mary Sprague of Farwell; three sisters, Birdie Kelly of Harrison, Louise and husband Arnold Crook of Hillsdale, Lola Armstrong of Midland; 6 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were entrusted to Campbell-Stocking Family Funeral Home, Farwell. (The Clare County Review – Clare, MI – 13 February 2009)
GRACE EVA BLACKLEDGE
Grace Eva Blackledge, age 85 passed away at Woodland Hospice in Mt. Pleasant, MI on Monday, February 9, 2009. Funeral Services were held at 1 p.m. Thursday, February 12, 2009 from Campbell-Stocking Family Funeral Home, Farwell. Pastor Jim Young officiated. Burial followed in Mt. Pleasant Memorial Gardens.
Grace was born in Clare County, the daughter of Arthur and Grace (Monroe) Sprague on March 20, 1923. She married Arnold Lee Blackledge on Sept. 30, 1939 in Isabella County.
She was a homemaker and loving mother to her three children. Grace enjoyed the outdoors, and was an avid hunter, trapper, and fisherwoman. She played the fiddle, accordion, banjo, and mandolin. She performed with a group of musicians called the “Honeybees” at lodges and nursing homes in the area. She and her husband loved to dance, including square dance. Grace was known for her “green thumb” as witnessed by her beautifully landscaped yard, and flowers.
She is survived by her husband, Arnold Lee Blackledge; two sons, Arnold Lee and wife Geraldine of Florida and King and wife Mary Sprague of Farwell; three sisters, Birdie Kelly of Harrison, Louise and husband Arnold Crook of Hillsdale, Lola Armstrong of Midland; 6 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were entrusted to Campbell-Stocking Family Funeral Home, Farwell. (The Clare County Review – Clare, MI – 13 February 2009)
Grace Eva Blackledge, age 85 passed away at Woodland Hospice in Mt. Pleasant, MI on Monday, February 9, 2009. Funeral Services were held at 1 p.m. Thursday, February 12, 2009 from Campbell-Stocking Family Funeral Home, Farwell. Pastor Jim Young officiated. Burial followed in Mt. Pleasant Memorial Gardens.
Grace was born in Clare County, the daughter of Arthur and Grace (Monroe) Sprague on March 20, 1923. She married Arnold Lee Blackledge on Sept. 30, 1939 in Isabella County.
She was a homemaker and loving mother to her three children. Grace enjoyed the outdoors, and was an avid hunter, trapper, and fisherwoman. She played the fiddle, accordion, banjo, and mandolin. She performed with a group of musicians called the “Honeybees” at lodges and nursing homes in the area. She and her husband loved to dance, including square dance. Grace was known for her “green thumb” as witnessed by her beautifully landscaped yard, and flowers.
She is survived by her husband, Arnold Lee Blackledge; two sons, Arnold Lee and wife Geraldine of Florida and King and wife Mary Sprague of Farwell; three sisters, Birdie Kelly of Harrison, Louise and husband Arnold Crook of Hillsdale, Lola Armstrong of Midland; 6 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great-grandchildren.
Arrangements were entrusted to Campbell-Stocking Family Funeral Home, Farwell. (The Clare County Review – Clare, MI – 13 February 2009)
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