Mahoning County OhArchives Obituaries.....Wanamaker, Lucy Nee HENRY [Blackburn] March 16, 1948 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/oh/ohfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jennifer L. Neff ffen@zoominternet.net June 3, 2006, 12:54 pm Mahoning Dispatch, Fri, 19 Mar 1948 WANAMAKER, Lucy nee HENRY [BLACKBURN] 1. Mrs. John Blackburn 2. Mrs. Thomas Wanamaker 21 Nov 1852 to 16 Mar 1948 96y 3m 25d MRS. WANAMAKER TAKEN Mrs. Lucy Blackburn Wanamaker, 95, Shields Road, Boardman township, died of pneumonia Tuesday evening [16 Mar 1948]. She had been hospitalized the past five weeks after suffering a fractured hip in a fall in her home. Mrs. Wanamaker was born in Woodworth, Nov. 21, 1851, a daughter of William and Margaret Henry, and her entire life was spent in this vicinity. She was a member of the Zion Lutheran church, Cornersburg. Mrs. Wanamaker’s first husband, John Blackburn, died 53 years ago and her second husband, Thomas Wanamaker, died in 1925. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Harry H. Smith, Boardman township; two sons, Scott R. Blackburn of Canfield, and Floyd H. Blackburn of Warren; five grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services conducted by Rev. D.F. Alber, will be held at 2 p.m. Friday [19 Mar 1948] at the Williams Funeral Home, where friends may call Thursday evening. BURIAL Canfield Township Cemetery and Death Records, Mahoning County, Ohio, 1983, ps 22 & 90 [p 90: buried as wife of John Blackburn] Lucy Blackburn nee Henry Wanamaker was buried 19 Mar 1948 in the NW corner, by road, beside Sanzenbacher Mausoleum, in Canfield Village Cemetery, Canfield, Mahoning Co. OH Additional Comments: Comment: Neff Connection Mary A. Neff, daughter of Martin Neff and great granddaughter of Conrad Naff, married Floyd Blackburn on 12 Feb 1896. Floyd was the son of Lucy and John Blackburn. Floyd and Mary A. Neff were married just three years when she died on 27 Apr 1899, at the age of 34. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/oh/mahoning/obits/wanamake873ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ohfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb