Louise J. Blake

Published 12:00 am Thursday, November 5, 2009

Louise J. Blake died Wednesday, Nov. 4, 2009, at River Region Medical Center. She was 92.

Mrs. Blake was a homemaker. She was a member and mother at Greater Mount Olive No. 2 M.B. Church and a member of Order of the Eastern Star.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Richard Giles and Lutitia Ross; her husband, Willie Blake Sr.; one son, Chester Blake; and two daughters, Viola Cooper and Flosie Johnson.

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Survivors include two sons, Willie Blake Jr. of Pascagoula and A.J. Blake of Anniston, Ala.; two daughters, Thelma Jean Summers and Dorothy McRunnells, both of Vicksburg; and one brother, Lucius Giles of St. Louis.

W.H. Jefferson Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.