Mary Peterson Blackman -1955

BLACKMAN, PETERSON, PETERSEN, JORDAN

Posted By: Bobbie (email)
Date: 7/11/2010 at 11:20:56

The Council Bluffs Iowa Nonpareil
Council Bluffs, IA
Feb. 16, 1955

Mrs. Mary Blackman

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Blackman, 70, of Moorhead will be held at 10 a.m. Friday at the Crosby-Kunold Farman St. Mortuary in Omaha.

Additional services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Moorhead Christian Church. Elder Frank Fry of Omaha will officiate at both services. Burial will be in Little Sioux Cemetery.

Mrs. Blackman died Tuesday after being fatally injured in a head-on car-truck crash on the Morman Bridge near Crescent on Jan. 5. She was Pottawattamie County's fourth 1955 traffic fatality. Her husband, Chester, 72, the county's first traffic fatality was killed instantly in the crash.

Born in Turin, she had resided in Moorhead for the last eight years.

She is survived by; daughter, Mrs. Elaine Jordan of Omaha; and brother, William Peterson of Little Sioux.