Extracted from The Smithfield Herald (Smithfield, NC)
Tuesday, September 25, 1956

MRS. ORA G. BLACKMAN

Mrs. Ora Godwin Blackman, 79, a native of Johnston County who lived most of her life in Sampson County, died Sunday afternoon at 4:30 at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Sidney R. Guy of Route 1, Dunn. She was the daughter of the late George and Letha Anne Smith of Godwin.

A funeral service was scheduled to be conducted this (Tuesday) afternoon at 3 o'clock at Bethesda Friends Church with the Rev. J. Waldo Smith, the Rev. Hersell Hill of High Point and the Rev. Lela Garner of Goldsboro officiating and with interment following in the Barefoot family cemetery.

She was a member of Bethesda Church AD, and was one of the oldest members.

Survivors are two daughters, Mrs. Sidney R. Guy of Route 1, Dunn, and Mrs. John Robert Warren of Smithfield, Va.; one sister, Mrs. Nancy Glover of Benson; nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.