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