Garfield County CO Archives Obituaries.....Black, Wesley Myron August 21, 1988
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Rifle Telegram Aug. 31,1988 p 20
Wesley Myron Black
 Memorial services for Wesley Black were held Tuesday, August 23, 1988 at the 
Sowder Funeral Home. The Rev. James A. Legg officiated. Cremation was held.
 Mr. Black was born Wesley Myron Black, the son of William Ansel and Cora Lee 
Keefer Black on February 20, 1913 at Mancos.
 Mr. Black's parents were ministers and thus took the family to various 
communities during Mr. Black's childhood.
 He lived in the southern Colorado communities of Pueblo, Canon City and 
Florence and also in Oklahoma.
 During World War II, he served in the United States Army with the 732nd 
Railway Operations Battalion, serving in the Ardembes, Raineland and Central 
Europe. Upon receiving his honorable military discharge, he returned to 
Colorado where he lived in Littleton.
 Black established the Metropolitan Insulation Company which he owned and 
operated for many years.
 Following his retirement Mr. and Mrs. Black lived in Littleton until coming 
to the Silt community in April of 1988.
 Mr. Black was united in marriage with Emily Marie Dysart in Denver in 
Feburary of 1961.
 On November 19, 1965 Mr. Black received a citation for saving the life of an 
injured man who fell 300 feet while mountain climbing near the Nellis Air 
Force Base in Nevada.
 Mr. Black was a member of the Free Methodist Church.
 He was preceded in death by two brothers, Lewis and Ansel and a sister, Leila 
Hayne.
 Survivors include his wife, Emily; a son and daughter-in-law, Myron and 
Frances Jean of Rifle; a daughter and son-in-law, Lelia and Joe Ayla of 
Denver; two brothers, Arthur C. Black of Pueblo and William Paul Black of 
Colorado Springs; 14 grandchildren, other relatives and many friends.

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