Extracted from The Kerrville Mountain Sun (Kerrville, TX)
Wednesday, May 6, 1964

Rites Tuesday For James Blakeley, 26

The last rites for James Blakeley, 26, were held Tuesday afternoon from the Plummer-Smith chapel with O. C. Childs of Jehovah's Witnesses officiating and interment was in the Sunset Cemetery. His death occurred early Sunday in the Peterson Hospital.

A native of Kerrville, he was an electrical contractor, a member of the Volunteer Fire Department and a member of the Kerrville Radio and Civil Defense Club. He was a member of the First Baptist Church.

He is survived by his wife, three children, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Earl Blakeley, all of Kerrville; two brothers, Bill of Kerrville and Dale Blakeley of Houston; a sister, Miss Hope Marie Blakeley of Kerrville; and grandparents, W. C. Blakeley of Houston and Mrs. Mattie Price of Paris.