Payette County ID Archives Obituaries.....Blackburn, Benjamin H. 1979
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Independent Enterprise 3-29-1979
Independent Enterprise
Payette, Idaho
Thursday, March 29, 1979
 
BENJAMIN H. BLACKBURN
 
FRUITLAND - Benjamin H. Blackburn, 89, of Fruitland, died Thursday at a Boise 
hospital.  Services were conducted Monday at 2 p.m., at the Fruitland Ward of 
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, by Bishop Chad Clark.  
Interment followed in Rosedale Memorial Gardens at Payette, under the 
direction of Payette Chapel of the Roses.
 
He was born Oct. 16, 1889, at Florence, Kan. to George and Minnie Blackburn.  
He married Kleo Wixom Aug. 14, 1929, at Soda Springs.  The marriage was later 
solemnized in the Idaho Falls Temple of the LDS Church.  He served in the Army 
during World War I, and was a mechanic for the Idaho Highway Department.  He 
moved to Fruitland in 1945, where he was a refrigerator engineer for Ore-Ida 
Inc.
 
He was a member of the LDS Church, Weiser High Prienst Quorum, Veterans of 
World War I and Disabled American Vets.
 
Surviving are his wife of Fruitland; a son, Alan R. of Tucson, Ariz.; a 
daughter, Mrs. Mickey (Carol Jean) Hewitt of Maui, Hawaii; a brother, Earl of 
Ontario, Ore.; a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Cambell of Soda springs; four 
grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  He was preceded in death by three 
brothers and two sisters.
 
Note:  Names are spelled as they appeared in the paper.

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