TITLE:   EVA BLAKE, Obituary, Nov 24, 2000

SUMITTERS:    COLEBROOK NEWS & SENTINEL
              "Independent but not Neutral"
              1 Bridge Street, P.O. Box 39, Colebrook, NH 03576
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EVA BLAKE


Eva Lancaster Morse Blake, 97, died on Friday, November 24, 2000, at the 
Country Village Center in Lancaster. 

The daughter of Harry Lancaster, a well known Maine guide, and Addie Poland, 
she was born in Skowhegan, Maine, and was raised by her father and 
stepmother, Addie Ripley Lancaster. 

Her childhood was spent in Magalloway and at age 17, Eva moved to Gorham. She
lived there until her marriage to Austin Hall Morse, boss-bricklayer at the
Brown Company Mills. After his death in 1952, she married Reginald Lee
Blake, who died in 1972. 

Eva became a legend in her own time. She was the oldest member of the Maine 
Grange and owned one of the old lumber camps on the Diamond River, where she
became known as the ³Queen of the Diamond.² She enjoyed fishing and hunting
and threw out the first ball at the Labor Day ballgames on the Diamond 
River. 

She is survived by her daughter, Pearl (Mrs. Robert) Morse Dodge, of 
Frankfort, Mich.; her granddaughter Bobette Dodge and her great-granddaughter
Gretchen Dodge Higbee, both of Clinton Township, Mich.; and a niece, Muriel 
Knowlton, of Skowhegan, Maine. 

There will be no services, but a celebration of Eva's life will be held at a
later date to be determined by the family. Anyone who wishes may make 
donations in her memory to the Aziscoös Grange, c/o Donna Glover, Box 307, 
252 Wilsons Mills Road, Errol, NH 03579. 

Funeral arrangements are under the direction of the Bryant Funeral Home in 
Berlin. 

(Issue of November 29, 2000) 

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