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Walter Blackwell

14 Feb 1914 – 5 Jan 2002

Birth	14 Feb 1914
Death	5 Jan 2002
Cemetery	Center Plains Cemetery Cotton Center , Hale County , Texas , USA
Added by	J.R. Boliver on 19 Dec 2013
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42710835

Bio

Graveside services for Walter B. Blackwell, 87, of Chaparral, N.M., and formerly of Plainview will be at 2 p.m. today at Center Plains Cemetery in Cotton Center with the Rev. John Henry Roberts officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Freeman-Abell Funeral Home of Hale Center. He died Saturday, Jan. 5, 2002. He was born Feb. 14, 1914, in Fort Worth and married Alma L. Looney on March 30, 1941, in Plainview. She died Nov. 1, 1981. He was a former member and helped build the Calvary Baptist Church in Plainview. He was a Plainview resident from 1941 until moving to Chaparral in 1965. He was a member of Hillcrest Baptist Church in El Paso. A daughter, Opal Harris, died in March 1998. Survivors include three sons, Charles A. Roberts of Maricopa, Ariz., John H. Roberts of Quanah and James E. Blackwell of Chaparral; a daughter, Jean Meeks of Tahoka; 23 grandchildren; 37 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.

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Family

Parents

• Thomas Westbrook Blackwell 1879–1952
• Olivia Burnett Richardson Blackwell 1885–1944

Spouse

• Alma L. Blackwell 1911–1981 FaG

Siblings

• Infant Blackwell 1905–1905
• Tommie Willie "Toddie" Blackwell Boliver 1905–1994
• Jessie LaVada Blackwell Edwards 1908–1984
• James Carroll Blackwell 1910–1991
• Richard Lee "Dick" Blackwell 1912–1971
• Frank Norfleet Blackwell 1916–1998
• Baby Girl Blackwell 1918–1918
• John Searcy "Jack" Blackwell 1920–1995
• Jerimiah Vernon Blackwell 1923–2001
• Mary Belle Atkins 1925–2002

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