OBIT: Mary Cecilia (Russell) BLACKBURN, 2007, Somerset, Somerset County, PA
  
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  BLACKBURN, Mary Cecilia (Russell)  01/05/07   Daily American
  
   Mary Cecilia (Russell) Blackburn, 93, Preston Street, Bedford, died Jan. 3, 2007, at her
  residence. She was born June 15, 1913, in Bedford, daughter of the late Arthur S. and Ruth
  (Stevenson) Russell. She is preceded in death by one brother, John Franklin Russell. She
  was the beloved wife of Kenneth Lamborn ÒTedÓ Blackburn, whom she married July 25, 1942,
  in Bedford. She is survived by five children, Melissa, wife of Michael Shakman, Chicago;
  Sharon, wife of Homer Dumas, Honolulu; Marcia, wife of Thomas Rogish, Shepherdstown,
  W.Va.; Cecilia Lawrence; Dallas; William Blackburn, married to the former Margaret
  Golian, Shanksville; 10 grandchildren, Katherine Blackburn Shakman, Mary Frances Dumas,
  James Edmund Dumas, Joseph Kipp Blackburn Rogish, Jeffrey Thomas Lamborn Rogish, Wendy
  Leigh Bialek, Charitie Amber Mercier, William Russell Blackburn, Jason Laine Blackburn,
  Kelsey Marie Blackburn; and five great-grandchildren, Jackson Thomas Rogish, Aleyna Marie
  Penny, London Renee Mercier, Nixon Kain Mercier and Baily Laine Blackburn. Also surviving
  are brothers and sisters, Allen Stevenson Russell, married to the former Judy Sexauer,
  Hilton Head, N.C.; James Kirk Russell, married to the former Betty Manspeaker, Bedford;
  Beverly Ruth, wife of Wilbur Creelman, Emmaus; and Anna Belle, wife of Eugene Thomas, San
  Diego. She was a life member and the oldest member and a deacon of the Bedford
  Presbyterian Church. She had also served as a Sunday School teacher and was a member of
  the Ladies Circle. She was one of the earliest members of the Ladies Auxiliary at Bedford
  Hospital and also a member of numerous bridge clubs for many years. She is a graduate of
  Bedford High School class of 1931, a graduate of Wilson College in Chambersburg and a
  graduate of Columbia University in New York. She was a teacher and the Head Librarian at
  Bedford High School for many years, retiring in 1975. Mary Blackburn devoted her life to
  family, friends and the Bedford Presbyterian Church. She loved traveling with her husband
  and family and last year even visited Australia. Friends will be received from 2 to 4 and
  7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday at the Timothy A. Berkebile Funeral Home, Bedford. There will also be
  a memorial service at the Bedford Presbyterian Church following the church service at
  11:30 a.m. on Jan. 14. Funeral service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Bedford
  Presbyterian Church. Burial at the Fishertown Cemetery. Sign our online guest book at
  www.berkebilefuneralhome.com.