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Benjamin M. Blue

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Benjamin M. Blue

Birth
Protection, Comanche County, Kansas, USA
Death
27 Dec 1991 (aged 82)
Salinas, Monterey County, California, USA
Burial
Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
Plot
First Addition, Block 6, Row 14, Lot 6
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Benjamin M. Blue

Graveside service for Benjamin M. Blue, 82, was at 2 PM Thursday at Cherokee Municipal Cemetery with the Rev. Glenn E. Gerber officiating. Arrangements were by Goodwin Funeral Home. Blue died December 27, 1991, in Salinas, California.

He was born may 14, 1909, in Protection, Kansas, to Meech and Mae Bragg Blue and attended schools in Cherokee. He graduated from Alva High School. He attended Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma A&M College where he played basketball. He later played on a semi-– professional team in Wichita. He was employed with Santa Fe Trailways in Wichita, later in the freight department of Santa Fe and Continental. He lived in various locations before moving to Salinas where he owned a freight–brokerage firm.

On October 31, 1933, he married Virginia Lancaster in Cherokee. He married Betty Westover in 1950 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a member of the Friends Church, Beta Theta Pi and Orion Club.
Benjamin M. Blue

Graveside service for Benjamin M. Blue, 82, was at 2 PM Thursday at Cherokee Municipal Cemetery with the Rev. Glenn E. Gerber officiating. Arrangements were by Goodwin Funeral Home. Blue died December 27, 1991, in Salinas, California.

He was born may 14, 1909, in Protection, Kansas, to Meech and Mae Bragg Blue and attended schools in Cherokee. He graduated from Alva High School. He attended Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma A&M College where he played basketball. He later played on a semi-– professional team in Wichita. He was employed with Santa Fe Trailways in Wichita, later in the freight department of Santa Fe and Continental. He lived in various locations before moving to Salinas where he owned a freight–brokerage firm.

On October 31, 1933, he married Virginia Lancaster in Cherokee. He married Betty Westover in 1950 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a member of the Friends Church, Beta Theta Pi and Orion Club.


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  • Created by: Tim
  • Added: Dec 30, 2012
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/102852391/benjamin_m-blue: accessed ), memorial page for Benjamin M. Blue (14 May 1909–27 Dec 1991), Find a Grave Memorial ID 102852391, citing Cherokee Municipal Cemetery, Cherokee, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, USA; Maintained by Tim (contributor 47626042).