Joseph Blakeley 1899-1983

BLAKELEY, TURMAN, HARTER, JANNINGS, BAILEY, SCHREPFER, WATERMAN, SAVAGE

Posted By: Connie Street (email)
Date: 5/1/2003 at 22:02:54

JOSEPH BLAKELEY

Joseph H. Blakeley, 83, Stockport, died at 2:05 p.m. Thursday, September 14, 1983, at Good Samaritan Home, Keosauqua after a long illness.

He was born December 6, 1899, in St. Joseph, Missouri, to Oscar and Clara Turman Blakeley. He married Violet Harter April 25, 1918, in Fairfield. Mr. Blakeley was a retired farmer who had lived in the Salem and Stockport vicinities for many years.

Surviving: the wife; son, Wayne, Hardin, Missouri; five daughters, Lorraine Jannings, Bloomfield, Meda Bailey, Salem, Alberta Schrepfer, Mt. Pleasant, Kathryn Waterman, West Burlington, and Theola Savage, Burlington; 17 grandchildren; two step-grandchildren; 23 great grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were held Saturday, September 17, at 1 p.m. at the Weston Behner Funeral Home in Fairfield with the Rev. Richard DeVore officiating. Burial was in Spencer Cemetery. A memorial for Spencer Cemetery Association has been established.

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