Son of David L. Blackburn and Margaret D. Pace. Husband of Juanita Hawley.

Utah Death Certificate

The following obituary was provided by Karen Shurtz, member # 46956863

Millard County Progress
11/17/1933

EARL BLACKBURN DIES IN S.L.

Earl Blackburn died last Friday at the Veterans Hospital in Salt Lake, where for the past two months he had been undergoing treatment for nephritis. He was born at Loa in Wayne County, 40 years ago and for the past 20 years had resided near Delta where he was engaged in farming and raising high grade sheep.

Mr. Blackburn was educated at the Utah Agricultural College and conducted his farming and stock raising successfully along scientific lines. He was a man of unusual intelligence and great force of character and was ever ready to express himself emphatically on all public issues regardless of whether his views were in popular favor or not. He had srtong convictions and he adhered to them with fidelity and always stood ready to champion the right as he saw it. He was honest and out-spoken and lived his life above board. He hated sham and hypocrisy and never hesitated to denounce in the most forcible terms those people both in public and private life who practiced them. He was true to his friends, devoted to his family and loyal to his country. No one could have known him intimately without feeling a touch of improvement through his association. He was the soul of honor and this community loses one of its staunchest, most likeable and valuable citizens in his untimely death.

Being a World War veteran, he was an active and consistent member of the American Legion and rendered much assistance to other members of the organization who were in need. His funeral was held from the Halt-Ricketts Mortuary in Salt Lake Sunday afternoon and his popularity locally is somewhat attested by the great concourse of friends from Delta who went to Salt Lake to pay their final respects to his memory. He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Juanita Hawley Blackburn, two sons and a daughter, Jay Paul Blackburn, Vincent Blackburn and Miss Hope Blackburn, and also by his mother, Mrs. M.D. Blackburn of Salt Lake and seven sisters, Mrs. M.D. Black of Berkeley, California; Mrs. G.J. Johnson of Portland, Ore.; Mrs. C.F. Pinkerton, Mrs. J.H. Clarke, Misses Myrtle, Iona and Jessie Blackburn, and one brother, Jack Blackburn all of Salt Lake.