OBIT: Odessa Jane "Wince" (MOORE) BLACKA, 1986, native of Somerset County, PA
  
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  ODESSA J. BLACKA
  
    Odessa Jane (Wince) Blacka, 66, died Monday, Sept. 8, 1986, at
  Memorial Hospital, Cumberland, Md.
    She returned to this area recently after having lived in Hollywood,
  Fla., for the past 25 years.
    Born Jan. 13, 1920 in Confluence, she was a daughter of the late
  Harry E. Moore and Melissa (Myers) Moore.
    She was a member of the ladies auxiliaries of Cresaptown, Md.,
  Aerie 2883, Fraternal Order of Eagles, and Fort Ashby Post 6667,
  Veterans of Foreign Wars.
    Her husband was the late Richard Paul Blacka.
    Surviving are two sons, Chief Warrant Officer David P. Blacka,
  stationed with the Army at Fort Lee, Va.; Richard W. Blacka,
  Marianna, Fla.; two sisters Mrs. Marjorie Hawse and Mrs. Dorothy Beck
  both of Fort Ashby, W. Va.; and five grandchildren.
    Friends will be received at the George-Upchurch Funeral Home,
  Cumberland, where services were conducted Wednesday at 11 a.m. by the
  Rev. Richard A. Seaks.
    Interment, Fort Ashby Cemetery.
    Pallbearers were Bob Bradfield, Delbert Myers, Joseph Kenney,
  Douglas Wolford, Harold Shingler and Virgil Abe.
  
  The Republic, September 11, 1986
  
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