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Submitted: 12/31/20 • Approved: 12/31/20 • Last Updated: 1/3/21 • R1357845-G1357844-S3
Mar 16, 1926 - Mar 31, 2014
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June Gosnell Blackard, 88, of Blytheville, Arkansas, passed from this life Monday, March 31, 2014, at her son's home in Milan, Tennessee.
Born in Blytheville, Arkansas, to Munsey Ward and Lucy Arledge Gosnell.
She was a homemaker and a lifelong member of First United Methodist Church. June was dedicated in the church as a baby and was active in various capacities throughout her life. She was a prayer warrior who loved the Lord and always made sure her son was in church and active in church activities. She was an avid bridge player and was a member of 3 bridge clubs for over 50 years. She was a member of the Blytheville Junior Auxiliary and was a longtime member of the Blytheville Country Club, where she met every Tuesday with her bridge club. June was an awesome cook who was known for her cakes, especially her chocolate cake with fudge icing and her banana nut cake with caramel icing.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Carl Blackard.
June is survived by her son Ward O'Keefe and wife Lisa, of Milan, Tennessee; stepdaughters Carla Ferguson of Paragould, Arkansas and Padee Black of Grass Valley, California; grandchildren Amanda Bradford, Ward O'Keefe Jr. and Evan McCoy; step grand-children Leigh Ann Wilson, Ashley Piediescalzi and Catherine Piediescalzi; 4 great grand-children and her lifelong friend Bobby Ann Caraway of Memphis, Tennessee.
Funeral services were at the First United Methodist Church in Blytheville with burial in Maple Grove Cemetery.
Jonesboro Sun obits. April 3, 2014
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