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Submitted: 7/12/14 • Approved: 7/13/14 • Last Updated: 7/16/14 • R1021100-G0-S3
Feb 17,1890-Apr 23,1950
Husband of Jennie H Long Blakemore
A Heart Attack Proves Fatal to Co-Owner of Hardware Store Here
Rites for Carroll Fairfax Blakemore, 60-year-old Blytheville hardware dealer who died at 12:30 p.m. yesterday after being stricken with a heart attack on his return from church, will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Holt Funeral Home chapel. The Rev. Harvey T. Kidd, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, will officiate.
Mr. Blakemore died at his home at 1141 Hearn Street a few minutes after stricken with the heart attack. He had been prominent in business circles in Blytheville for more than 30 years.
Mr. Blakemore was born in Hopkinsville, Ky., in Feb [1890 and was educated in Hopkinsville and Memphis, Tenn. schools. He was a veteran of World War I, and had been a deacon in the First Presbyterian Church for a number of years.
In 1928 he was married to Miss Jennie Long of Covington, Tenn., who survives him. Survivors other than his wife are a son, Carroll F. Blakemore, Jr.; a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Blakemore; a brother, Neville H. Blakemore, all of Blytheville, and an aunt, Mrs. J. Nick Thomas of Stuart, Fla.
Active pallbearers will include G. G. Hubbard, Jr., Charles Bittner, L. G. Nash, J. W. Adams, Rosco Grafton and A. S. Harrison.
Honorary pallbearers will be Aubrey Conway, W. C. Cales, I. D. Chamblin, E. F. Fry, F. E. Keck, Ross Stevens, E. M. Woodard of Dell, Roy Walton, R. I. Haley, and Circuit Judge Zal B. Harrison.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery
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Contributed on 7/12/14 by bill060
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