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Author: MargieRoopPearce
Surnames: Blakey, Thieme, Kirbach, Walda, Young, Meinzen, Buechner, Bishoff, Curren
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Decatur Daily Democrat, Adams Co, IN; Thursday, November 6, 1930
MRS. BLAKEY IS CALLED BY DEATH
Mrs. Amelia Blakey, 73, Union Township, Died Wednesday Night
Mrs. Amelia Blakey, 73, wife of J. Henry Blakey and for many years a resident of Union
township, Adams county, died at her home Wednesday evening at 8:45 o'clock of
complications. Death followed an illness of three weeks during which the deceased was
bedfast.
Mrs. Blakey was a well-known and prominent Union township woman. She was for many
years a devoted member of the Emmanuel Lutheran church and was a charter member of the
Ladies Aid Society of that church.
She was born in Fort Wayne, May 23, 1857, the daughter of Godfried and Amelia Thieme,
both deceased. At the age of eight years, she moved with her family to Adams county where
she spent the remainder of her life. She was untied in marriage to Henry Blakey in 1878
and to this union were born 11 children, three of whom preceded the deceased in death.
Surviving is the aged husband, Henry Blakey, and three sons, Arthur Blakey, trustee of
Union township, and John Blakey at home in Union township; Rev. Henry Blakey of Milwaukee,
Wis., and five daughters, Mrs. Julia Kirbach, Mrs. Amelia Walda, Mrs. Clara Young, Mrs.
Lydia Meinzen, all of Fort Wayne, and Mrs. Louise Buechner of Convoy, Ohio. Twenty
grandchildren, 3 sisters, Mrs. Pauline Blakey of Union township, Mrs. Ida Bishoff of
Huntington, Mrs. Antonia Curren of Marion, and a brother, A. F. Thieme of Union township
also survive.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock (sun time) at the
home in Union township and at 2 o'clock (sun time) at the Emmanuel Lutheran church
with Rev. M. J. Frosch, Pastor, officiating. Rev. Herman Reinking of Woodburn, a nephew
of the deceased will assist Rev. Frosch in conducting the funeral services. Burial will
be made in the church cemetery.
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