Blackshire, Marshall Frank

Passed:

Age: 92

Source:

Death Notice:

Obituary Date: 1973-01-11

Information: Funeral services were held Friday at Parsons Funeral Home, Ripley for Marshall Frank Blackshire, 92, of Charleston, who died last Tuesday in Charleston Memorial Hospital following a brief illness.  The Rev. Warren Anderson and the Rev. Luther F. Nicholas officiated and burial was in the Joe Hamon Cemetery at Poca, Jackson County.  Born at Advent, he was a son of the late Greenberry B. and Mahaala Haynes Blackshire and was a retired farmer, a former member of the Washington District School Board County Commission, Jackson County and a member of the Second Advent Church. Survivors include two sons, Dorman Young Blackshire of Gay and Dennis B. Blackshire of Lima, Ohio; seven daughters, Mrs. Georgia Lanham of Gay, Mrs. Rena Holley, Mrs. Blanche Smith and Mrs. Pauline Deaver all of Charleston, Mrs. Martha Hamon of Riviera, Ariz., Mrs. Ellen Smith of Frederickstown, Ohio and Mrs. Arbutus Durbin of Streetsboro, Ohio and one sister, Mrs. Margaret Rhodes of Charleston.