Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blake, Evelyn Corson April 20, 1942 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dorothy Strawhand https://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008405 April 21, 2019, 1:34 pm Norfolk Virginian Pilot Tuesday April 21, 1942 Mrs. Evelyn Corson Blake, aged 75, died at the residence of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Hasler, 1904 Claremont avenue, yesterday morning at 5 o'clock after a brief illness. She was a native of Kent County, Md. and had resided in Norfolk for the past 53 years. She was the widow of Frank Webb Blake and daughter of the late Humphrey and Ella Bowman Corson. Mrs. Blake was a member of the First Presbyterian Church. In addition to her daughter, Mrs. Hasler, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Harriette B. Kerns, of Norfolk; a sister, Mrs. J. Harry Gibson, of Aberdeen, Md.; a brother, Walter Bowman Corson, of Marysville, Pa.; five grandchildren and one great grandchild. The body will be taken from the Cox Funeral Hone, 631 Westover avenue, to the residence where funeral services will be conducted today at 12 o'clock noon. The Rev. Jason L. MacMillan, D.D., pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate. Interment will be in private in Elmwood Cemetery. Additional Comments: Elmwood File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/b/blake16065gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb