Beckham Co. OK            JIM HENRY BLAND,SR.
                                      
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   * NOTE * Jim Henry BLAND ,Sr.,b.25 March 1927 d.20 Oct 1990 buried
   Carter cemetery *Carter,Beckham Co.,Ok., s/o Jeff Joe & Bonnie Lucille
   h/o Martha SHEPPARD m.12 Mar 1951 h/o Joe Ann SWEET m.19 September
   1980
   
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   Jim Henry BLAND,Sr.,63,passed away at his home in Texola
   Oct.20.Funeral services were Monday at 2 p.m. in the Carter Cemetery
   with Ray SMART officiating.
   
   The interment is under the direction of Rose Chapel in Sayre.
   
   Jim was born March 25,1927 to Jeff Joe and Bonnie Lucille BLAND in Elk
   City and he attended the Sandstone and Carter Schools.
   
   He later moved to the Sayre area where he lived most of his life.On
   March 12,1951,he married Martha SHEPPARD in Sayre and in 1975 he moved
   to Texola to make his home.
   
   On Sept.19,1980 he married Joy Ann SWEET in Wheeler,Texas.
   
   He is preceeded in death by his father,stepfather,two brothers,two
   sisters and two grandchildren.
   
   He is survived by his wife Joy of the home;two daughters,Caroline
   TILLER of Sayre and Marketta JEFFERS of Greenwood,Ark;three sons,Jim
   Henry,Jr.;Jeff and James all of Sayre and Gary Dail DERR of
   Woodward.One brother,Dewitt of Kingman Arizona.Two sisters,Leona BILLS
   of Joshua Ariz,Neoma WILSON of Okeene,ten grandchildren and four great
   grandchildren.