Obituaries for Pike County, Ky, 

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Transcribed by: Tami Lee Coleman tamile@kymtnet.org
Date: June 1999
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Whetsel Blair, 59, of Hurricane Creek, Pikeville, died at 11 a.m., last Sunday, 
February 23, 1974, at his home following a long illness.  Born March 3, 1915 in Pike 
County, he wa a son of the late Chris and Cynthia (Adkins) Blair. He was a retired 
miner.  Survivors include his wife, Hester (Meade) Blair; three sons, Norman Blair of 
Wyandotte, MI., James Harmel Blair of Dayton OH., and Billy Oliver Blair of Lincoln 
Park MI., two daughters, Mrs. Linda Lou Irick and Mrs. Cynthia Ann Payne, both of 
River Rouge MI., one brother, John Blair of Virgie KY., three sisters,Mrs. Lillian 
Smith of Sidney, Mrs. Tildie Stiltner of Elkhorn City and Mrs. Lethia Couch of Omar 
WV., and 14 grandchildren.  Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. last Tuesday at his 
home with Primitive Baptist ministers officiating.  Burial followed in the Meade 
Cemetery on Hurricane Creek under the direction of the JW Call and Son Funeral Home.

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Becky Lynn Tackett, 3 months, of Toler Creek died at 4 a.m. Monday, January 4 at the 
home of her paternal grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Tackett.  She was born in 
Pikeville on October 11, 1981, a daughter of Janie Blair Tackett and Gary Gene 
Tackett; one sister,  Levon Kay Tackett; and her maternal grandmother, Vossie Blair of 
Regina.  Funeral services were scheduled to be held at 11 a.m.  Wednesday, January 13, 
1982, at the Justice Baker Funeral Home  chapel with the Regular Baptist ministers 
officiating.  Burial will  follow in the Tackett Cemetery at Grethel.  Arrangements 
were under  the direction of the Justice Baker Funeral Home of Pikeville.

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