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Charles Ford Blanchard

Birth
Yazoo County, Mississippi, USA
Death
10 May 1961 (aged 88)
Epps, West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, USA
Burial
Delhi, Richland Parish, Louisiana, USA Add to Map
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Funeral services for Charles Ford Blanchard, 88, father of Mrs. Fred Beckett, Monroe, were held at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Epps Methodist church with the Revs. Robert C. Wilbanks and Basil Halbert officiating.

Mrs. [sic Mr.] Blanchard died Wednesday morning at his home in Epps. He was a retired planter, native of Yazoo County, Miss., and had lived in Louisiana since about 1903.

Interment in Delhi Masonic cemetery under direction of Gay Funeral home.

Other survivors include his widow, Mrs. Mattie Peyton Blanchard, Epps; five sons, Richard of Rayville; Harry of Springhill; Jack of Vicksburg, Miss.; Marion of Jennings, and John of Bastrop; six daughters, Mrs. Eulah B. Grigsby, Epps; Mrs. E. L. Wallace and Mrs. Louis Nettles, both of Tallulah; Mrs. W. C. Windham, Natchez, Miss.; Mrs. Edith Broussard, Baton Rouge, and Mrs. O. C. Smith, New Orleans; 22 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Billy Windham, Charles Boyd Smith, DeWitt Beckett, Ray Tharpe, Garland Traxler, C. L. Miller and Arthur Purvis.

Published in The Monroe News-Star (LA), Friday, May 12, 1961
Funeral services for Charles Ford Blanchard, 88, father of Mrs. Fred Beckett, Monroe, were held at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Epps Methodist church with the Revs. Robert C. Wilbanks and Basil Halbert officiating.

Mrs. [sic Mr.] Blanchard died Wednesday morning at his home in Epps. He was a retired planter, native of Yazoo County, Miss., and had lived in Louisiana since about 1903.

Interment in Delhi Masonic cemetery under direction of Gay Funeral home.

Other survivors include his widow, Mrs. Mattie Peyton Blanchard, Epps; five sons, Richard of Rayville; Harry of Springhill; Jack of Vicksburg, Miss.; Marion of Jennings, and John of Bastrop; six daughters, Mrs. Eulah B. Grigsby, Epps; Mrs. E. L. Wallace and Mrs. Louis Nettles, both of Tallulah; Mrs. W. C. Windham, Natchez, Miss.; Mrs. Edith Broussard, Baton Rouge, and Mrs. O. C. Smith, New Orleans; 22 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Billy Windham, Charles Boyd Smith, DeWitt Beckett, Ray Tharpe, Garland Traxler, C. L. Miller and Arthur Purvis.

Published in The Monroe News-Star (LA), Friday, May 12, 1961

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