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Claude Ray Bledsoe

Male 1916 - 1983  (67 years)


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  • Name Claude Ray Bledsoe 
    Born 29 Jan 1916  Rossville, Shawnee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 19 Oct 1983  Eskridge, Wabaunsee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Wabaunsee Cemetery, Wabaunsee, Wabaunsee County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I2069  Rossville
    Last Modified 27 Dec 2019 

    Father Claude Bledsoe 
    Mother Mary Elizabeth Moyer Bledsoe 
    Family ID F536  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Mina Lemarr Bledsoe 
    Married 29 Jan 1939  Wamego, Pottawatomie County, Kansas Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Darlene Bledsoe Capps
     2. Patricia Bledsoe Richards
     3. Donna Bledsoe Fetcher
    Last Modified 27 Dec 2019 13:26:25 
    Family ID F537  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

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    Link to Google MapsBuried - - Wabaunsee Cemetery, Wabaunsee, Wabaunsee County, Kansas Link to Google Earth
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    Obituary- Bledsoe, Claude Ray
    Obituary- Bledsoe, Claude Ray
    RAY BLEDSOE
    Ray Bledsoe, 67, Wamego, died late Wednesday, October 19, 1983, at an Eskridge nursing home where he lived since 1979. He previously was a patient at the Veterans Administration hospital in Topeka for a year.
    Mr. Bledsoe was a construction worker and an Army veteran of World War II.
    He was born January 29, 1916, at Rossville, the son of Claude and Mary Elizabeth Moyer Bledsoe. He was graduated from Wamego schools and spent all his life in the Wamego area.
    Mr. Bledsoe was a member of First Baptist Church at Wamego.
    He was married to Mina Lemarr January 29, 1939, at Wamego. She survives.
    Other survivors include three daughters, Mrs. Darlene Capps, Mercer Island, Wash., Mrs. Patricia Richards, Gardner, and Mrs. Donna Fechter, Belvue; four sisters, Mrs. Irene Cease, Omaha, Nebr., Mrs. Ada Harrell and Mrs. Addrienne Humbert, both of Harlingen, Tex., and Mrs. Mary Jane Perine, Wamego; nine grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
    Services were at 10 a.m. Saturday at Stewart Funeral Home, Wamego. Burial was in Wabaunsee Township Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Kansas Heart Association in care of the funeral home.