Obituaries:  Horace Lester Blackmon, Sabine Parish       B-425
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 10, 1986
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Horace Lester Blackmon

  Services for Mr. Horace Lester Blackmon, 56, of Shreveport, were
held at 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, April 8, at Rose-Neath's Marshall
Street Chapel. The Rev. Leon Williams, associate pastor of
Highland Baptist Church, where Mr. Blackmon was a member,
officiated. Burial was at Centuries Memorial Park.

  Mr. Blackmon died Monday, April 7, 1986, at V. A. Medical
Center, after a long illness. He was born in Vernon Parish, La.
Mr. Blackmon had been a resident of Shreveport for 32 years, and
was retired from Bewley Furniture Co.

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Gladys Johnston Blackmon of
Shreveport; three sons, Larry Gene Blackmon of Monroe, Dennis
Lester Blackmon of Whitehouse, Texas, Marcus Newell Blackmon of
Keni, Alaska; two sisters, Hazel Beral of Pineville, Marie
Crutchfield of Many; one brother, J. C. Blackmon of Vidor, Texas;
five grandchildren.