Obit of Bland, John Henry - Kiowa County, Oklahoma

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::Ural Cemetery--Kiowa County OK

Amarillo Globe News 21 Nov 1998

John Henry Bland

SHAMROCK - John Henry Bland, 73, died Friday, Nov. 20, 1998.

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Ural Cemetery in Kiowa 
County, Okla., with Sid Smith, minister of Church of Christ in Shamrock, 
officiating. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Directors.

Mr. Bland was born in Cordell, Okla., and lived in several towns in the 
Texas Panhandle for most of his life. He was an Army Air Corps veteran of 
World War II. He moved to Shamrock eight years ago. He was employed as a 
mill operator for Moody Farms Feedlot and Heritage Beef Cattle Co., before 
his retirement.

He married Thelma Anderson in 1972 at Amarillo. He was preceded in death 
by a daughter, Judy Mayne, in 1994 and by a stepdaughter, Linda Jean Croy, 
also in 1994.

Survivors include his wife; five daughters, Ethel Taylor of Pampa, Phylis 
Martin of Jasper, Jackie Thompson of Grove City, Ohio, Joe Helen Grimes of 
Alton, Ill., and Carolyon West of Pampa; three stepdaughters, Helen 
Kimbrell of Brownwood, and Juanita Strain and Lois Flippin, both of Fort 
Worth; a brother, Jack Bland of Houston; 24 grandchildren; and 11 great-
grandchildren.
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