Published in the Big Spring Daily Herald on Monday, November 8, 1971:
Mrs. Bledsoe,
C-City Rites
COLORADO CITY - Mrs. Arthur Bledsoe, 95, former longtime resident of Mitchell County, died Saturday in Brookshire after a brief illness.
Services were to be 4 p.m. Monday in the Kiker-Rains-Seale Funeral Home with the Rev. Glenn Roenfeldt, First Baptist minister, officiating, and burial was to be in the Colorado City Cemetery with grandsons as pallbearers.
Mrs. Bledsoe was born Jan. 20, 1876, in McLennan County and was married to Arthur F. Bledsoe in 1897 at Goldthwaite. They moved to Mitchell County in 1918. After his death in 1957, she went to live with a daughter in Brookshire. She was a Baptist.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Charles Walters, Brookshire, Mrs. Bill Hague, Midland, Mrs. E. W. Montgomery, Odessa, Mrs. J. D. Kennedy, Stephenville; two sons, Hollis Bledsoe, El Centro, Calif., and Marion C. Bledsoe, Dallas; one sister, Mrs. Annie Long, Midland; 11 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
Published in the Big Spring Daily Herald on Monday, November 8, 1971:
Mrs. Bledsoe,
C-City Rites
COLORADO CITY - Mrs. Arthur Bledsoe, 95, former longtime resident of Mitchell County, died Saturday in Brookshire after a brief illness.
Services were to be 4 p.m. Monday in the Kiker-Rains-Seale Funeral Home with the Rev. Glenn Roenfeldt, First Baptist minister, officiating, and burial was to be in the Colorado City Cemetery with grandsons as pallbearers.
Mrs. Bledsoe was born Jan. 20, 1876, in McLennan County and was married to Arthur F. Bledsoe in 1897 at Goldthwaite. They moved to Mitchell County in 1918. After his death in 1957, she went to live with a daughter in Brookshire. She was a Baptist.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Charles Walters, Brookshire, Mrs. Bill Hague, Midland, Mrs. E. W. Montgomery, Odessa, Mrs. J. D. Kennedy, Stephenville; two sons, Hollis Bledsoe, El Centro, Calif., and Marion C. Bledsoe, Dallas; one sister, Mrs. Annie Long, Midland; 11 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren, and two great-great-grandchildren.
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