Kenneth J. Blake

BLAKE, TUCKER, ASHWORTH, KRUEGER, BROWN, RIGGIO, HOUSER, HALLER, AHLF

Posted By: Judy Kelley (volunteer) (email)
Date: 5/26/2009 at 18:39:51

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Kenneth J. Blake Died At Muscatine

Kenneth J. Blake, 2121 Demorest avenue, Muscatine died at 6:10 p.m. Saturday at Muscatine General hospital about eight hours after he suffered a stroke.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Riley funeral home. The Rev. T. Ray Crews officiated. Burial in Greenwood cemetery.

There were military rites at the cemetery.

Mr. Blake worked in the maintenance section of Grain Processing corporation. He was a veteran of World War II and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

The son of Jess and Maude Tucker Blake, he was born at Muscatine, October 27, 1914. He was a Muscatine resident all his life.

He was married to Irene Ashworth July 28, 1945, at Decatur, Georgia.

Surviving are his wife; a son K. Jim Blake, at home; one daughter, Mrs. Arnold (Mary Ann) Krueger, Jr. route 1, Letts; four brothers, Floyd of Muscatine, Calvin of Davenport, Clifford of Columbus Junction and Jess Blake of Muscatine; and six sisters, Mrs. Holton (Iona) Brown of Muscatine, Mrs. Steve (Cleda) Riggio of Berkeley, California and Mrs. Wilfred (Wilma) Houser, Mrs. George (Helen) Haller, Mrs. John (Dorothy) Haller and Mrs. Herman (Sylvia) Ahlf, all of Muscatine.

His parents and an infant sister are dead.