UPSON COUNTY GA Obits Mrs. Velma B. Blount 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: Mrs. Velma B. Blount Thomaston…Death claimed Mrs. Artis (Velma B.) Blount, age 87 of 425 South Green Street on Wednesday morning at the Emergency Room of the Upson County Hospital. Funeral services were held Friday at 3:00 p.m. from the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. W. C. Bowen officiating. Burial was in Glenwood Cemetery with Pasley-Fletcher Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Blount was a native of Philips County, Ark., but had lived in Thomaston for 72 years. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church. She is survived by four daughters: Mrs. Cecil Kersey, Panama City, Fla., Mrs. W. E. Huckabee Jr., and Mrs. Hartley ??can’t read first letter of last name) ?arron, both of Thomaston, and Mrs. Preston Stephens, Atlanta, two sons; J.W. (Billy) Blount, Thomaston, and Samuel L. Blount, Atlanta, 15 grandchildren and four great grandchildren also survive.