Re: JACKSON/BLUE/SANDERS/CARDIN/HANEY....
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Maquetia Wilson 5/30/04
Found this obit for J W Blue...
J.W. Blue
DUMAS - J.W. Blue, 81, died Wednesday, March 23, 2005.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Temple Baptist Church with the Rev. J.
McGaughy, pastor, and Beau Blue officiating. Burial will be in Dumas Cemetery
by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors.
Mr. Blue went to meet the Lord on Wednesday after a lengthy illness. He was
born in Wheeler on Oct. 7, 1923, to Artie Mae Reynolds and Walter E. Blue. His
family moved to Bula when he was 6 years old. He graduated from Bula High
School in 1941, where he was an outstanding basketball player with a great
hook shot from the corner.
J.W. served in the Army Air Corps during World War II. His service was in the
South Pacific and in the invasion and occupation of Japan. Blue married
Glennella Gaillard of Texhoma, Okla., on Jan. 3, 1949. In 1954, he started the
family company, Blue Plumbing. J.W. "Pops," a 52-year resident of Dumas,
sponsored and played on softball teams in Dumas and Guymon, Okla., and was
instrumental in building the original Dumas softball park. He was a Methodist,
a staunch Democrat and a 32nd degree Mason.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Steve Blue and wife, Patsy, and Monte
Blue and Juanita, all of Dumas; a daughter, Cathy Creel and husband, Bub, of
Newcastle; a daughter-in-law, Yvonne Blue of Dumas; 10 grandchildren; and five
great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to Temple Baptist Church, 311 N. Maddox St.,
Dumas, TX 79029; or a favorite charity.
The family will be at 714 Klein St.
Amarillo Globe-News, March 25, 2005