UPSON COUNTY GA Obits Mr. Ralph E. Black Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Dorothy Fletcher http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/upson.htm :Table of Contents page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm :GA Table of Contents: Mr. Ralph E. Black Mr. Ralph E. Black, 66, of 42 Edgewood Ave., died Tuesday morning, December 24, 1985 at his residence. Funeral services were conducted Thursday afternoon, December 26, at 2 p.m. at the Chapel of Pasley- Fletcher Funeral Home. The Rev. Lawrence Burge officiated. Interment was held in South View Cemetery. Pasley-Fletcher Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. Mr. Black was a native Upsonian, retiring in June 1982 as a shift foreman at the Peerless Division of Thomaston Mills. He was a member of East Thomaston Lodge No. 175 F& AM, a member of Stanford Ellington Post No. 6447 Veterans of Foreign Wars, serving in the U.S. Army. Mr. Black was a member of Hightower Memorial United Methodist Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jimmy Brooks Black of Thomaston, two daughters: Mrs. Ronald Johnston of Thomaston, and Mrs. Marshall Bedford of Jonesboro, one son, Mr. Earl Black, Jr., of Mechanicsville, Md., mother, Mrs. Jennie Lou Black of Thomaston, one sister, Mrs. Thom Connell of Thomaston, one brother Miles of Thomaston.