Isle of Wight-Rockbridge County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blackwell, Delmas H., 1971 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ DELMAS HARVEY BLACKWELL A funeral service for Delmas Harvey Blackwell, 22, of Rt. 1, Lot 5, Airport Trailer park, Franklin, was held Monday, July 19, at 2:30 p.m. in Beaver Dam Baptist Church by the Rev. Edwin C. Thornton Jr. Burial was in Beaver Dam Cemetery. Pallbearers were J.W. Lee, Hank Drake, Jerry Allen, Bobby Vick, Richard Livesay, David Dundalow and Rick Ivey. Blackwell died Friday, July 16, of injuries received in an automobile accident near Franklin. A native of Rockbridge County, he had lived in the Franklin area for the past 12 years. He was a son of Howard F. and Mrs. Berry R. [sic; Barry A.] Fix Blackwell and a member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church. He was a shipping clerk for Smithfield Packing Co. Besides his parents, he is survived by one sister, Miss Sharon D. Blackwell, Franklin; three brothers Cecil M. Blackwell, Poquoson; Fred D. Blackwell, Providence, R.I.; and Donnie R. Blackwell, Littleton, Colorado. Delmas Harvey BLACKWELL, Smithfield Packing shipping clerk, Rockbridge Co. native, injured in crash, d. 16 Jul 1971, age 22, interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Franklin, 19 Jul 1971, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 22, 1971, Sect. II, p. 4 *His parents are also buried there. Beaver Dam list (BD-5), an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b424d1ob.txt