Obituary from The Des Moines Register newspaper, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA on 6-26-1975:
Lester Lincoln Blackford, 68, of 814 E. Ninth St., died of a stroke Wednesday at Iowa Lutheran Hospital after a long illness.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Hammilton's Funeral Home, with burial in North River Cemetery north of Indianola.
Mr. Blackford, a retired machinery company welder, was born in Warren County and lived in Des Moines most of his life.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Adams of Los Gatos, Calif., and Mrs. Joyce Torrillo of Chicago, Ill.; four sisters, Mrs. Thelma Evenson, Mrs. Ellen Bentley and Mrs. Virginia Thomas, all of Des Moines, and Mrs. Beverly Stivers of Altoona, and several grandchildren
Obituary from The Des Moines Register newspaper, Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa, USA on 6-26-1975:
Lester Lincoln Blackford, 68, of 814 E. Ninth St., died of a stroke Wednesday at Iowa Lutheran Hospital after a long illness.
Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Hammilton's Funeral Home, with burial in North River Cemetery north of Indianola.
Mr. Blackford, a retired machinery company welder, was born in Warren County and lived in Des Moines most of his life.
Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Adams of Los Gatos, Calif., and Mrs. Joyce Torrillo of Chicago, Ill.; four sisters, Mrs. Thelma Evenson, Mrs. Ellen Bentley and Mrs. Virginia Thomas, all of Des Moines, and Mrs. Beverly Stivers of Altoona, and several grandchildren
Family Members
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Howard Wayne Blackford
1908–1964
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Donald Alphonsa "Don" Blackford
1911–1966
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Thelma Irene Blackford Evenson
1912–1983
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Virginia Rosalie Blackford Thomas
1917–1987
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Martha Ellen "Ellen" Blackford Bentley
1918–1999
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Kenneth D Blackford
1919–1919
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Kenneth Lee Blackford Sr
1922–1965
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Lowell Lavon Blackford
1924–1924
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Eugene "Gene" Blackford
1929–1974
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Allen Blackford
1931–1931
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Beverly Blackford Stivers
1931–2020
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