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Submitted: 1/3/10 • Approved: 1/14/11 • Last Updated: 9/26/12 • R276583-G0-S3
Aug 3, 1930 - Feb 2, 1976
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Published February 1976 Wilbur Gene Blasengame, 45, of Gould, died Monday at the Veterans Administration Hospital at Little Rock. He had served for about four months as the Chief of Police for Gould. He had been a Correctional Officer at Cummins State Prison Farm for about five years and had been a Lieutenant when he left. He attended Lincoln County Schools. He was a son of Mrs. Ozell Petty Blasengame Dorsett of Pine Bluff and the late Oather Blasengame. He had served in the Air Force for six years during the Korean War. He was a member of the Lone Grove Missionary Baptist Church near Star City. Other survivors include his wife, Mrs. Dorothy Harper Blasengame; four sons, Michael G. Blasengame of McGehee and Glen Blasengame, Gary Blasengame, and Clifton Blasengame of Gould; his stepfather, James Dorsett of Pine Bluff, and his grandmother, Mrs. Vida Petty of Pine Bluff. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Lone Grove Baptist Church by Reverend Ray Meador. Burial with Military Honors will be in Hickory Grove Cemetery. Pallbearers will be Paul Hood, Leon Newman, Loyd Anders, Clarence Moran, Junior Newman and J.P. Graham.
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