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                           OA Online Obituaries.
                                      
                               June 20, 2001
                                      
                          Permian Basin Obituaries
                                      
                                      
   Joe R. Blackwood
   ODESSA Joe R. Blackwood, age 63, of Odessa passed away Monday, June
   18, 2001, at Medical Center Hospital after a lengthy illness.
   Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Thursday, June 21, 2001, at Sunset
   Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Bob Bratcher of Mission Dorado Baptist
   Church officiating. Masonic graveside rites will follow at Sunset
   Memorial Gardens.
   Family visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at Sunset Memorial
   Funeral Home.
   Joe was born April 15, 1938, in Rogers, Ark., to William and Donna
   Templeton Blackwood. He was raised in San Angelo. He served in the
   U.S. Army 101st Airborne. He married Bettye Pulliam on Sept. 1, 1959,
   in Owensboro, Ky. They moved to Odessa in 1962.
   Joe had worked for Rexene Oil Co. for 19 years, retiring in 1989 as
   warehouse foreman. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge No. 955, the
   York Rite and the Shriners. Mr. Blackwood was a member of Mission
   Dorado Baptist Church.
   Survivors include his wife of 41 years, Bettye Blackwood of Odessa;
   half brothers, Terry and Mike Deason of Augusta, Kan.; two special
   nieces, Lisa Curtis of Owensboro, Ky., and Vicki Rose of Cranberry
   Township, Pa.; special friends, Jack and Ima Smith and Bill Wilkerson,
   all of Odessa; several other nieces and nephews; and many friends who
   were with the family during Joes illness.
   The family requests that in lieu of flowers memorial donations be made
            to the Mission Dorado Baptist Church Building Fund.
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