Peoria Journal Star
Peoria, Illinois
May 20, 1975
Page B-5
Services for Benjamin A. Blackburn, 87, of 204 Connecticut, who died at 5:10 A.M. yesterday in Proctor Hospital, Peoria, where he was admitted April 14, will be at 2:30 P.M. tomorrow at Wilton Mortuary, Peoria.
The Rev. Alfred Diestelkamp and the Rev. James Judkins will officiate, and burial will be in Parkview Cemetery, Peoria.
Visitation will be from 6 to 9 tonight at the mortuary.
He was born at Mammoth Spring, Ark., Sept. 20, 1887, a son of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Blackburn. He married Irie Mahan in Fulton County, Ark., in 1907. She died in Arkansas in 1942.
Mr. Blackburn formerly worked at Hart-Carter Co. as a utility man for four years. He was a member of the Church of Christ. A Peoria resident since 1944, he had lived in Washington for six months.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Eva Clark of Washington and Mrs. Ruby Moreland of Germantown Hills; two sons, Robert of Yale, Mich., and Virgil of Chicago; one sister, Mrs. Minnie Rogers of Paragould, Ark.; 26 grandchildren; 75 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Three sons, two brothers and two sisters preceded him in death.
** Note: Benjamin's right arm was cut off in a saw mill accident and was buried in the front yard of his home in Arkansas around the time of WWI.
Peoria Journal Star
Peoria, Illinois
May 20, 1975
Page B-5
Services for Benjamin A. Blackburn, 87, of 204 Connecticut, who died at 5:10 A.M. yesterday in Proctor Hospital, Peoria, where he was admitted April 14, will be at 2:30 P.M. tomorrow at Wilton Mortuary, Peoria.
The Rev. Alfred Diestelkamp and the Rev. James Judkins will officiate, and burial will be in Parkview Cemetery, Peoria.
Visitation will be from 6 to 9 tonight at the mortuary.
He was born at Mammoth Spring, Ark., Sept. 20, 1887, a son of Mr. and Mrs. LeRoy Blackburn. He married Irie Mahan in Fulton County, Ark., in 1907. She died in Arkansas in 1942.
Mr. Blackburn formerly worked at Hart-Carter Co. as a utility man for four years. He was a member of the Church of Christ. A Peoria resident since 1944, he had lived in Washington for six months.
Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Eva Clark of Washington and Mrs. Ruby Moreland of Germantown Hills; two sons, Robert of Yale, Mich., and Virgil of Chicago; one sister, Mrs. Minnie Rogers of Paragould, Ark.; 26 grandchildren; 75 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.
Three sons, two brothers and two sisters preceded him in death.
** Note: Benjamin's right arm was cut off in a saw mill accident and was buried in the front yard of his home in Arkansas around the time of WWI.
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