Obituary of Talmadge T. Blake native of Richland Parish Louisiana
as published in the Monroe News Star, February 4,2005
Submitted by for the USGenWeb Archives by Dot Golliher, 2/04/2005



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Talmadge Terrel Blake

Funeral services for Talmadge Terrel Blake, 87, a resident of the 
Northeast Louisiana War Veterans Home in Monroe will be held at 1:00 
PM Saturday, February 5, 2005 in the Chapel of Cox Funeral Home of 
Delhi. The Rev's Marion Collier and Jack Baucum will officiate. Interment 
with Military Honors will be in the Faith Memorial Park Cemetery in Delhi. 
Visitation will be from 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM Friday, February 4, 2005 at 
Cox Funeral Home. 

Mr. Blake died Wednesday in Monroe. He was a lifelong member of the Lamar 
Baptist Church, a retired farmer, former resident of Delhi and an Army veteran. 

He was preceded in death by his wife, Edna Ruth Baucum Blake and his parents, 
David Wyatt Blake and Lula Diane Gunter Blake. 

He is survived by two sons, Lynn Blake and wife Linda of Delhi and H. C. Blake 
and wife Pat of Tallulah; by four daugh ters: Rita Clark and husband Vernon of West Monroe, Ann Garley and husband Richard of Flora, MS, Sandra Williams and husband Gene of Daytona, FL, and Pam Marshall and husband Jay of Delhi; one sister: Daisy Bacon of West Monroe; four teen grandchildren, twelve great grandchildren and one greatgreat grandchild. 

His Grandsons will serve as pallbearers