Chambers County AlArchives Obituaries.....Blackmon, James Farley September 9 1964
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Valley Times News, Lanett, Alabama

OBITUARY:
Jim Blackmon, Retired Store Operator, Dies
     Jim Blackmon, 74, of Route three, West Point, died at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday 
at Lanier Memorial Hospital, Langdale, following a serious illness of three 
days.  He had been declining in health for several months.
     A native of Harris County, Georgia, Mr. Blackmon had been a resident of 
The Valley and the Fredonia area for the past 50 years.  He was a retired 
merchant, for some years owning a store in Fredonia.
     Mr. Blackmon was a veteran of World War One and was a member of the 
American Legion and the Fredonia Methodist Church.
     Funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday at the Johnson and Blakely 
Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. W. W. Hitt, pastor of Fredonia Methodist 
Church, conducting the service.   Burial will be in Hillcrest Gardens, Lanett.
     Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Alice Dickson Blackmon of Route Three, 
West Point; six daughters, Mrs. Clifford Smith, Mrs. Millard Mason and Mrs. 
Jim Boone, all of Lanett, Mrs. J. D. Thompson Jr., of Route Three, West Point, 
Mrs. Grady Story of Shawmut and Mrs. Tommie Griffin of Atlanta; three sons, 
James R. Blackmon of Fredonia, Franklin Blackmon of LaFayette and Sanford 
Blackmon of Washington, D.C.; two brothers, Mark Blackmon of Lanett and John 
Will Blackmon of Route Three, West Point; a sister, Mrs. T. I. Herring of 
Auburn; and 17 grandchildren.


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