Obituaries:  Mrs. Jessie Miller Blake, Sabine Parish       B-420
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 12, 1963
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Mrs. Jessie Miller Blake

  Funeral services for Mrs. Jessie Miller Blake were held at 2:00
p.m., Sunday, April 7, 1963, in St. John's Catholic Church of
Many, La., with Reverend M. R. Gremillion officiating. Interment
was in the church cemetery, under the direction of Warren Funeral
Home.

  Pallbearers were G. C. Addison, J. B. Vandegaer, J. Claude
Andries, J. M. Jordan, Dr. C. B. Tramel, Simon R. West, S. W.
Nichols, and Leon Mitchell Jr.

  Mrs. Blake was born December 23, 1891, at Vichy, Missouri, the
daughter of Josephine Meriwether Miller and John Henderson
Miller. On Jan. 7, 1926, at Texarkana, Arkansas, she was married
by Father Clarendon, to John J. Blake Sr., a lifelong resident of
Many, and they have resided in the town of Many since that time.

  Survivors include her husband, John J. Blake Sr.; one son, John
J. Blake Jr.; and two grandchildren, Cynthia Ann Blake, and John
J. Blake III, all of Many, Louisiana; two sisters, Mrs. R. A.
Gulledge of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Mrs. John L. Painter of
Lexington, Missouri; and one brother, T. H. Miller of Tulsa,
Oklahoma. She also leaves a host of friends.

  Mrs. Blake was a member of St. John's Catholic Church of Many,
Louisiana, and enjoyed a full enriched and rewarding life as a
wife, mother, and grandmother.

  Among relatives and friends here for the funeral services were
T. H. Miller of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Mrs. Milton Hall, Mrs. John
Gebhardt, and Foster K. Perry of Monroe, Louisiana, Mr. and Mrs.
W. D. Postell of New Orleans, Louisiana, Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Andries of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Mrs. C. G. Cloutier, Miss
Maudie Buvens, Mrs. W. W. Scott, Miss Edna Buvens, Miss Eula
Vandegaer, Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Graves, Paul Buvens, James Madden,
and E. B. Noland Jr., all of Shreveport, Louisiana.