Lucy M. Blackburn

MORRISON, BLACKBURN, HOLLEN, LAMBERT, DODDS

Posted By: Gloria Jean Dodds (email)
Date: 5/13/2002 at 04:17:57

Ottumwa Courier

Keosauqua - Mrs. Lucy M. Blackburn 75, wife of Hugh Blackburn, died at 11:17 a.m. Tuesday at the Van Buren County Memorial Hospital. She became ill at her home south of Keosauqua and entered the hospital at 9:45 a.m. She was employed three years as a cook at the Selma School and for a number of years assisted her son in the operation of Blackburn's service station in Selma.
The daughter of Emmett F. and Susie Hollen Morrison, she was born Nov. 13, 1898, in Van Buren co. On Feb. 21, 1918, she married Clifford Blackburn at Mount Sterling. Most of their married life was spent in the Selma community. He died in 1954.
A son, Merl, and several brothers and sisters also preceded her in death. On Jan 5, 1969, she married Hugh Blackburn at Keosauqua. They resided in the Center Chapel community south of Keosauqua. He survives. Also surviving are a son, Bruce, and a daughter, Mrs. Helen Lambert, both of Selma; a stepson, Robert Blackburn of Keosauqua; eight grand-children, several great-grandchildren, and a sister, Minnie Dodds of Clinton. The service will be Thursday at 2 p.m. at the Pedrick Funeral Home in Douds with the Rev. Donald Strauch officiating. Burial will be in Center Chapel cemetery.