Obit of Ellis Junior "Bunny" Blackshear (b426) - Rogers Mills County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Wanda Purcell    <wpurc25758@aol.com>   30 Jul 2002
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Ellis Junioer "Bunny" Blackshear, died Thursday, January 18, 1996, in the 
Sayre Memorial Hospital.  Funeral services where held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, 
January 20, 1996 at the Sayre United Methodist Church with Rev. Clarence Wing 
and Rev. Sheila Combs-Francis officiating.  Burial was in the Sayre-Doxey 
Cemetery under the direction of Martin Funeral Home of Sayre.

Mr. Blackshear, the son of William "Blackie" and James Lottie Dickerson Blackshear, 
was born on May 1, 1937, in Bonham, Texas.  He was raised in Texas and Western 
Oklahoma and attended school at Ocina and Carter, Oklahoma, and Channing, Texas.  
He served his country in the U.S. Army and was stationed in Germany.  After his 
discharge, he attended welding school in Armarillo, where he lived for a short 
time before moving to Sayre.  He married Margaaret Marie Bingham Griffin on 
April 17, 1970, in Sayre, where they made their home, and they had two children, 
Sonya and Roger.  

Mr. Blackshear was a welder, carpenter and heavy equipment operator.  They moved 
to the Houston, Texas, area for a short time before moving to Cheyenne in 
1979, where they owned and operated a metal building construction business, 
J.B. and the Bears, from 1980 until 1986.  After his wife died in June 1986, 
he moved to Sayre to make his home, where he had lived since.  He married Betty 
Jean Mayfield in 1989 and they had two children, T.J. and Jammie.  After his 
retirement, he often helpted his daughter, Sonya, at The Sayre Journal on 
Wednesday (mail and insert day) until ill health restrained hims from doing 
so.  He was an excellent guitar player and played with several bands when 
he was a young man.  He also played at Mickey Gilley's club in Houston.  
He was an avid crossword fan and loved to play dominoes, especially the 
game "Shoot the Moon."

He was preceded in death by his mother and father, his first wife, Marie; 
his stepfather, Zollie Westmoreland; two brothers, William Blackshear and 
Stanley Westmoreland; a sister, Sara Blackshear; and one granddaughter, 
Lisa Marie Sandoval.

He is survived by his wife, Betty, of Sayre home; two daughters, Sonya 
Blackshear Sandoval and her husband, Edward, of Sayre, and Jammie, of 
the home; two sons, Roger Blackshear and his wife, Crissy, of Elk City, 
and T.J. of the home; two grandsons, Zac Sandoval and Destin Blackshear; 
his stepmother, Mable and Leroy Smith of Denison, Texas; six brothers, 
Sid, Bill, Danny and Michael Blackshear, all of Denison, Glen Blackshear 
of Duran, Oklahoma, and Jim Dickerson of Sayre; two sisters, Linda Still 
of Denison and Jean Tadlock of Borger, Texas; several nieces, nephews, 
aunts and uncles.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, Ok