OSCAR BLAIR 1893-1960 Oscar Blair, 67, retired miner and farmer of Layalette, W. Va., died in a Huntington hospital Tuesday morning March 22 1960, after an illness of five months. He was the father of Mrs.Virgil Wheatley and Mrs.Eunice Huden of this city. The son of the late B.J. and Mary Katherine Watkins Blair, he was born in this county, January 6 1893, and had been a resident of Lavallette for the past sixteen years. Other survivors include three sons, Hurshell Blair, West Van Lear; Beecher Blair, Wabash Ind.; three other daughters, Mrs. Mary Baldridge, East Point; Mrs. Annie Murphy, Holden, W. Va.; Mrs. Mabel Williams, Meally; one sister, Mrs. Doshia Bailey, Indiana. Funeral services were conducted at 2:00 p.m. Thursday from the Jones-Preston Funeral Home with Cecil Sherman as officiating minister. Burial was in the Cumbo Cemetery at West Van Lear.
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