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Mary Gertrude Blake
© Enid News and Eagle
07-29-1979
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre


Guthrie – Service for Mary G. Blake, 85, a resident of the new Masonic Home at Guthrie, will be at 11 AM Thursday in the Davis Funeral Home Chapel at Guthrie. The Rev. Dennis Clark will officiate. Burial will be at 2:30 PM Thursday in the Enid Cemetery, with Eastern Star graveside rites.

Mrs. Blake died Sunday in the Logan County Health Center. She was born October 28, 1893 in Rockston, Texas, the youngest of Marinda Ann Paden and Winfield Featherstone Wofford. The family moved to Burton, Kansas, where they lived until she was 14 years old at which time she moved with her older sister to Enid. Her sister attended Phillips University, and she directed the choir at Central Christian Church and worked at the telephone company. The girls sang as a duet team until her marriage to Byron S. Blake of Hillsdale, and her sister joined an evangelist team as a singer.

Mrs. Blake and her husband lived in Freedoia, Kansas, for two years, then moved to Hillsdale. They later moved to Enid with widowed mother. She attended Phillips University for a short time.

A Christian since the age of seven, she was a member of Davis Park Christian Church, and affiliated with Amaranth, White Shrine, Ruth Chapter of Order of Eastern Star where she served as a past matron. She was also an honorary member of Chapter 36.

Mrs. Blake was appointed delegate to Maryland Eastern Star and to Texas Order of Rainbow for Girls.

Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. John (Kleta) Northup, Oklahoma City, Mrs. W. E. (Ruth) Weber, Killeen, Texas, Mrs. R. E. (Marianne) Trevathan, Midwest City, and Mrs. John (Joan) Watts II, Houston, Texas; 14 grandchildren; and five great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Byron, a two – year – old son and a daughter.



Byron Sterling Blake
© Enid Morning News
08-1970
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre


Funeral services for veteran rural mail carrier, Byron Sterling Blake, 82, 1510 E. Park, were conducted today in the Henninger – Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Burial was in the Enid Cemetery.

Born in Lafontaine, Kansas, on April 25, 1888, he married Mary Gertrude Wofford at Burrton, Kansas, in 1913. They later moved to Freedonia, Kansas, where he worked as an interior decorator.

In 1917, Blake came to Enid and served as a rural mail carrier for 39 years on routes four and five out of Enid. Following his retirement, he continued his woodworking and refinishing.

Blake was a member of Davis Park Christian Church, the Masonic Lodge No. 80, past worthy patron of the Eastern Star, Ruth Chapter, Royal Patron of Order of the Amaranth and watchman of the shepherds of the White Shrine. He also served with the Kansas National Guard in his youth.

Survivors include his wife, Mary, of the home; five daughters, Mrs. Lola McClain, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Mrs. Kleta Northup, Oklahoma City, Mrs. Ruth Weber, Killeen, Texas, Mrs. Marianne Trevathan, Oklahoma City and Mrs. John Watts, Houston, Texas; 11 grandchildren; two great – grandchildren and a brother Burline Blake, Cayucos, California.

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