Obituaries:  Mrs. D. E. Blake, Winn Parish, 1938
Submitted by:   Deanna Simmons Hess, RR 9, Box 1548, Livingston, TX
77351
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THE WINNFIELD-NEWS AMERICAN
Friday, March 18, 1938

Mrs. D. E. Blake of Calvin Succumbs
To Long Illness

Funeral Services Held on Monday.
Interment in Bethlehem Cemetery

        Mrs. D. E. Blake, age 54, a lifelong citizen of Winn parish died at
her
home at Calvin Saturday of last week after a lengthy illness.  She was a
devout member of the Calvin Baptist church.
        Funeral services were held at the Calvin Baptist church on Monday
afternoon at two o'clock with F. M. Shows, pastor, officiating, assisted
by the Rev. Alwin Stokes of Winnfield,  Interment was made in the
Bethlehem cemetery near Calvin.
        Mrs. Blake is survived by her husband, D. E. Blake; one son, I. C.
Blake of Jonesboro, and one daughter, Mrs. C. M. Carter of Calvin, a
bother, Joe Beckham, of Ringgold, and a sister, Mrs. John Hinton of
Epps.