Obituary: The Eldon Advertiser - Eldon, Missouri
James D. Blackburn, 85, Plainview, Texas, recently died at his home.
Graveside services were held 2 p.m. Tuesday in Plainview Memorial Park. Officiating was Dr. R.L. Kirk, pastor of First United Methodist Church.
Wood-Dunning Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements and burial.
James was born July 8, 1895, in Tuscumbia, Missouri and graduated from Tuscumbia High School. He went to college two years.
Volunteering for the U.S. Navy, during World War I, James served as a gunner and instructor in gunnery, a radioman and eventually became a pilot.
Mr. Blackburn was never sent overseas but flew up and down the East Coast of the United States from Boston, Mass., to Miami, Fla. He took his basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Base.
James started in the lumber business with his father and then was manager of Longbell Lumber Co. at various places for 35 years. He went from Oklahoma to Texas in 1941 and was manager of Longbell Lumber Co. there until he retired in 1955.
He married the former Hazel Kouns Nov. 8, 1924 in Tuscumbia. Missouri She died April 29, 1980.
James D. Blackburn, 85, Plainview, Texas, recently died at his home.
Graveside services were held 2 p.m. Tuesday in Plainview Memorial Park. Officiating was Dr. R.L. Kirk, pastor of First United Methodist Church.
Wood-Dunning Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements and burial.
James was born July 8, 1895, in Tuscumbia, Missouri and graduated from Tuscumbia High School. He went to college two years.
Volunteering for the U.S. Navy, during World War I, James served as a gunner and instructor in gunnery, a radioman and eventually became a pilot.
Mr. Blackburn was never sent overseas but flew up and down the East Coast of the United States from Boston, Mass., to Miami, Fla. He took his basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Base.
James started in the lumber business with his father and then was manager of Longbell Lumber Co. at various places for 35 years. He went from Oklahoma to Texas in 1941 and was manager of Longbell Lumber Co. there until he retired in 1955.
He married the former Hazel Kouns Nov. 8, 1924 in Tuscumbia. Missouri She died April 29, 1980.
Obituary: The Eldon Advertiser - Eldon, Missouri
James D. Blackburn, 85, Plainview, Texas, recently died at his home.
Graveside services were held 2 p.m. Tuesday in Plainview Memorial Park. Officiating was Dr. R.L. Kirk, pastor of First United Methodist Church.
Wood-Dunning Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements and burial.
James was born July 8, 1895, in Tuscumbia, Missouri and graduated from Tuscumbia High School. He went to college two years.
Volunteering for the U.S. Navy, during World War I, James served as a gunner and instructor in gunnery, a radioman and eventually became a pilot.
Mr. Blackburn was never sent overseas but flew up and down the East Coast of the United States from Boston, Mass., to Miami, Fla. He took his basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Base.
James started in the lumber business with his father and then was manager of Longbell Lumber Co. at various places for 35 years. He went from Oklahoma to Texas in 1941 and was manager of Longbell Lumber Co. there until he retired in 1955.
He married the former Hazel Kouns Nov. 8, 1924 in Tuscumbia. Missouri She died April 29, 1980.
James D. Blackburn, 85, Plainview, Texas, recently died at his home.
Graveside services were held 2 p.m. Tuesday in Plainview Memorial Park. Officiating was Dr. R.L. Kirk, pastor of First United Methodist Church.
Wood-Dunning Funeral Home
was in charge of arrangements and burial.
James was born July 8, 1895, in Tuscumbia, Missouri and graduated from Tuscumbia High School. He went to college two years.
Volunteering for the U.S. Navy, during World War I, James served as a gunner and instructor in gunnery, a radioman and eventually became a pilot.
Mr. Blackburn was never sent overseas but flew up and down the East Coast of the United States from Boston, Mass., to Miami, Fla. He took his basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Base.
James started in the lumber business with his father and then was manager of Longbell Lumber Co. at various places for 35 years. He went from Oklahoma to Texas in 1941 and was manager of Longbell Lumber Co. there until he retired in 1955.
He married the former Hazel Kouns Nov. 8, 1924 in Tuscumbia. Missouri She died April 29, 1980.
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