Obituary of RALEIGH DALE BLAKE.

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From The Jena Times - Olla Tullos Signal; Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.  
Microfilm at the LaSalle Parish Library located in Jena, LaSalle Parish, La.

Many Thanks to The Times - Signal and to the LaSalle Parish Library for 
allowing the following to be added to the Archives.





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Date:  August 9, 2000, Wednesday

Headline:  Raleigh Dale Blake

Raleigh Dale (R.D.) Blake, 67, of West Monroe, died at 12:15 a.m., Thursday, 
August 3, 2000, at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Shreveport after a 
courageous bout with leukemia.

Mr. Blake was born in Urania on Feb. 16, 1933, to the union of Raleigh Dale 
and Aro Holmes Blake.  He spent many years in the oil field business and 
recently retired with 11 years of service at E. A. Conway Hospital in Monroe 
as an electrician.

Services were held at 10 a.m., Saturday, August 5, at the chapel of 
Kilpatrick Funeral Home in West Monroe with Father Mark Norris and Rev. Mary 
Anderson officiating.

Interment followed in Roselawn Cemetery at Calhoun under direction of 
Kilpatrick.

Survivors include his wife, Gwen Blake of West Monroe; his mother, Aro Holmes 
Blake of Olla; two daughters, Karen White of Winnfield and Paula Allen of 
Shreveport; two stepdaughters, Robby Webster and Jeanny Gross, both of West 
Monroe; two sisters, Frances Spence of Riverside, Ca., and Sallie Lowery of 
Olla; one brother, Donnie Blake of Canton, Ga.; six grandchildren, one 
great-grandson, and a host of nieces, nephews, and friends.

Pallbearers were Edwin Webster, Leonard Pruitt, Dickie Butler, Glen 
Henderson, Alvin Spence, and Donnie Lowery.