Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blassingham, James Laurance January 5, 1943
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot January 6, 1943

          J. L. Blassingham, Veteran Minister, Dies at Age of 81

       For Half Century, His Particular Interest City's Welfare Center

The Rev. James Laurance Blassingham, aged 81, husband of Mollie Owen 
Blassingham, died at the residence, 529 West Thirty-seventh Street, last night 
at 10:55 o'clock after a long illness. Besides his wife he is survived by three 
daughters, Mrs. W.H. Davis, Miss Lena B. Blassingham and Mrs. W. Willoughby; 
four sons, M.T., L.R., and W.V. Blassingham, all of Norfolk and John Wesley 
Dudley, U.S.A.; a brother, John W. Blassingham, of Norfolk; five grandchildren 
and a great-grandchild.
Mr. Blassingham was a native of Belroi, Gloucester County and had been a 
resident of Norfolk for 64 years. He was a member of the Pentecostal Conference, 
chaplain and charter member of the Three Score and Ten Club, for several years 
was teacher of the Ford Bible Class of Brambleton Avenue Methodist Church and 
was a member of Elizabeth Camp No. 3, W.O.W.
His particular interest was with the residents of the City Welfare Center, 
where, and at its predecessor, the City Home, for 50 years he took a very active 
interest and conducted services regularly for many years.
The body will be taken from the Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home to the Park Place 
Methodist Church for funeral services tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial 
will be in Elmwood Cemetery.


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