Mr. Ira Blevins, 81, a retired farmer of 313 Meadowbrook Drive in Campbellsville, formerly of the Finley Community in Taylor County, son of the late Mr. Thomas Blevins and Mrs. Delia Ann Sullivan Blevins, was born in Newkirk, Oklahoma, April 13, 1898. He died at 4:02 a.m., Sunday, May 13, 1979, at the Metzmeier Nursing Home where he had been a patient for the past three weeks. He had professed faith in Christ and was a member of the Good Hope Baptist Church. He united in marriage to Miss Lillie Richerson, December 17, 1916. To this union five sons and two daughters were born: Faye Genette Blevins died in infancy. Surviving are Mrs. Elizabeth Raikes, Mr. Ray Blevins, Mr. Edwin Blevins, Mr. Carroll Blevins, and Mr. Leslie Blevins, all of Campbellsville, and Dr. Robert L. Blevins of Lexington. Besides his wife and children, he is survived by thirteen grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m., Tuesday, May 15, at the Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Chapel by Rev. Charles England and Rev. Marshall Black. Burial was in Good Hope Church Cemetery. Pallbearers were Otha Blevins, Thomas Blevins, Lowell Caulk, Russell Caulk, Bobby Caulk, and Fred Waddle. Honorary pallbearers were Wilson Morris, T.O. Purcell, E. Poe Young, Willard Caulk, James Benningfield, Henry Turner, Sam Harden, Millard Shreve, Lawrence Rafferty, and Robert McFarland. ~Taylor County, Kentucky Obituaries, Volume I, compiled by Eunice Montgomery Wright, January 20, 1989, p. 41
Mr. Ira Blevins, 81, a retired farmer of 313 Meadowbrook Drive in Campbellsville, formerly of the Finley Community in Taylor County, son of the late Mr. Thomas Blevins and Mrs. Delia Ann Sullivan Blevins, was born in Newkirk, Oklahoma, April 13, 1898. He died at 4:02 a.m., Sunday, May 13, 1979, at the Metzmeier Nursing Home where he had been a patient for the past three weeks. He had professed faith in Christ and was a member of the Good Hope Baptist Church. He united in marriage to Miss Lillie Richerson, December 17, 1916. To this union five sons and two daughters were born: Faye Genette Blevins died in infancy. Surviving are Mrs. Elizabeth Raikes, Mr. Ray Blevins, Mr. Edwin Blevins, Mr. Carroll Blevins, and Mr. Leslie Blevins, all of Campbellsville, and Dr. Robert L. Blevins of Lexington. Besides his wife and children, he is survived by thirteen grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren, several nieces and nephews. Funeral services were conducted at 2 p.m., Tuesday, May 15, at the Parrott & Ramsey Funeral Chapel by Rev. Charles England and Rev. Marshall Black. Burial was in Good Hope Church Cemetery. Pallbearers were Otha Blevins, Thomas Blevins, Lowell Caulk, Russell Caulk, Bobby Caulk, and Fred Waddle. Honorary pallbearers were Wilson Morris, T.O. Purcell, E. Poe Young, Willard Caulk, James Benningfield, Henry Turner, Sam Harden, Millard Shreve, Lawrence Rafferty, and Robert McFarland. ~Taylor County, Kentucky Obituaries, Volume I, compiled by Eunice Montgomery Wright, January 20, 1989, p. 41
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