The following obituary was published in the Big Spring Daily Herald on Sunday, January 10, 1971:
Monday Rites For
Blake Bledsoe
Last rites for Blake O. Bledsoe, 73, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Nalley-Pickle Rosewood Chapel with the Rev. Leo K. Gee, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be at 4 p.m. in the Cemetery at Gorman.
Mr. Bledsoe died at 4:05 p.m. Friday in a Lubbock hospital which he entered Jan. 5. He had been ill for the past five months.
He was born Jan. 18, 1897, near Desdemona. He was married to Lucille A. Grice July 11, 1936, at Gorman, and they came to Big Spring in 1954. He retired as a civil service worker at Webb AFB in January, 1967. He had been a Methodist for 51 years, and was a member of Veterans of World War I, Barracks 1474.
Surviving are his wife; three sons, Wade Bledsoe, Big Spring, Benjamin F. Bledsoe, Lubbock, and O. Wayne Bledsoe, Center Point, Tex.; three daughters, Mrs. J. M. Self and Dorene Bledsoe of Big Spring, and Mrs. L. C. Henricksen, Las Vegas, Nev. He also leaves 10 grandchildren, and a brother, Boyd Bledsoe, Big Spring. Members of WWI Barracks 1474 will be honorary pallbearers.
Monday Rites For
Blake Bledsoe
Last rites for Blake O. Bledsoe, 73, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Nalley-Pickle Rosewood Chapel with the Rev. Leo K. Gee, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be at 4 p.m. in the Cemetery at Gorman.
Mr. Bledsoe died at 4:05 p.m. Friday in a Lubbock hospital which he entered Jan. 5. He had been ill for the past five months.
He was born Jan. 18, 1897, near Desdemona. He was married to Lucille A. Grice July 11, 1936, at Gorman, and they came to Big Spring in 1954. He retired as a civil service worker at Webb AFB in January, 1967. He had been a Methodist for 51 years, and was a member of Veterans of World War I, Barracks 1474.
Surviving are his wife; three sons, Wade Bledsoe, Big Spring, Benjamin F. Bledsoe, Lubbock, and O. Wayne Bledsoe, Center Point, Tex.; three daughters, Mrs. J. M. Self and Dorene Bledsoe of Big Spring, and Mrs. L. C. Henricksen, Las Vegas, Nev. He also leaves 10 grandchildren, and a brother, Boyd Bledsoe, Big Spring. Members of WWI Barracks 1474 will be honorary pallbearers.
The following obituary was published in the Big Spring Daily Herald on Sunday, January 10, 1971:
Monday Rites For
Blake Bledsoe
Last rites for Blake O. Bledsoe, 73, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Nalley-Pickle Rosewood Chapel with the Rev. Leo K. Gee, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be at 4 p.m. in the Cemetery at Gorman.
Mr. Bledsoe died at 4:05 p.m. Friday in a Lubbock hospital which he entered Jan. 5. He had been ill for the past five months.
He was born Jan. 18, 1897, near Desdemona. He was married to Lucille A. Grice July 11, 1936, at Gorman, and they came to Big Spring in 1954. He retired as a civil service worker at Webb AFB in January, 1967. He had been a Methodist for 51 years, and was a member of Veterans of World War I, Barracks 1474.
Surviving are his wife; three sons, Wade Bledsoe, Big Spring, Benjamin F. Bledsoe, Lubbock, and O. Wayne Bledsoe, Center Point, Tex.; three daughters, Mrs. J. M. Self and Dorene Bledsoe of Big Spring, and Mrs. L. C. Henricksen, Las Vegas, Nev. He also leaves 10 grandchildren, and a brother, Boyd Bledsoe, Big Spring. Members of WWI Barracks 1474 will be honorary pallbearers.
Monday Rites For
Blake Bledsoe
Last rites for Blake O. Bledsoe, 73, will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Nalley-Pickle Rosewood Chapel with the Rev. Leo K. Gee, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be at 4 p.m. in the Cemetery at Gorman.
Mr. Bledsoe died at 4:05 p.m. Friday in a Lubbock hospital which he entered Jan. 5. He had been ill for the past five months.
He was born Jan. 18, 1897, near Desdemona. He was married to Lucille A. Grice July 11, 1936, at Gorman, and they came to Big Spring in 1954. He retired as a civil service worker at Webb AFB in January, 1967. He had been a Methodist for 51 years, and was a member of Veterans of World War I, Barracks 1474.
Surviving are his wife; three sons, Wade Bledsoe, Big Spring, Benjamin F. Bledsoe, Lubbock, and O. Wayne Bledsoe, Center Point, Tex.; three daughters, Mrs. J. M. Self and Dorene Bledsoe of Big Spring, and Mrs. L. C. Henricksen, Las Vegas, Nev. He also leaves 10 grandchildren, and a brother, Boyd Bledsoe, Big Spring. Members of WWI Barracks 1474 will be honorary pallbearers.
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