Extracted from The Birmingham News (Birmingham, AL)
Wednesday, May 17, 1961

Jacob B. Blake

Jacob B. Blake, 55, of 117 20th-av s. died yesterday at a local hosiptal [sic].

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. tomorrow at Johns-Ridout Church Chapel, with the Rev. H. C. Burns officiating. Burial will be in Oak Grove Cemetery in Jemison.

Mr. Blake, a native of Winston County, lived in Birmingham for 35 years. He was an employe of Ingalls Iron Works for 18 years.

He was a member of Green Springs Baptist Church and the Steelworkers Union.

He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Mrs. Emma Ellen Hudson of Garden Grove, Calif.; two sons, Richard and Johnny Blake of Garden Grove, Calif.; a step-daughter, Mrs. Margie Bailey of Birmingham; a step-son, Tommy Martin of Saginaw, Ala.; a brother, David Blake of Sayre, Ala., and seven grandsons.