Obit of Blair, Wilbur E - Choctaw County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 26 Dec 2004 Return to Choctaw County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/choctaw/choctaw.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Amarillo Globe News 11 Apr 1997 Wilbur E. Blair MEMPHIS - Wilbur E. Blair, 84, died Wednesday, April 9, 1997. Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in Childress Cemetery at Childress with the Rev. Kerry Wood, minister of music at First Baptist Church in Childress, officiating. Arrangements are by Johnson Funeral Home of Childress. Mr. Blair was born in Hugo, Okla. He farmed in the Cee Vee / Tell area from the late 1920s until 1955. He lived in Muleshoe for 25 years and had lived in Memphis for the past eight years. He was a disabled veteran of World War II and had received two Purple Hearts. He married Vera Faye Mullins in 1942 at Childress. Survivors include his wife. The family will receive visitors from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the funeral home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Choctaw County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/choctaw/choctaw.html