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- LYNN V. BLOUNT, ONCE OF LACONA, DIESShow Details
Watertown Daily Times (NY) - April 16, 1994Browse Issues
Lynn V. Blount, 67, of 128 Royal Palm Court Southwest, Winter Haven, Fla., formerly of Lacona, died Wednesday at his home in Florida, where he was under the care of Good Shepherd Hospice.
The funeral will be 1 p.m. Monday at the Summerville Funeral Home, Sandy Creek, with the Rev. Lorraine Zimmerman, pastor of the Sandy Creek United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial with military honors will be in Woodlawn Cemetery, Sandy Creek.
Calling hours will be 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, with a Masonic service at 8 p.m. Contributions may be made to the American Lung Association or the Good Shepherd Hospice, P.O. Box 7129, Winter Haven, Fla. 33883.
Surviving are his wife, Rose S.; a daughter, Rebecca Barber, Bartow, Fla.; two sons, David, Winter Haven, and Staff Sgt. Steven Blount, U.S. Marine Corps., Tustin, Calif.; five grandchildren; five step-grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; three sisters, Ann Dextor, Pulaski, Joyce Kehoe, Bartow, and Pauline Snyder, Osceola; a brother, Richard, Arcadia, Fla., and several nieces and nephews.
Born on Sept. 6, 1926, in the town of Richland, a son of Ralph and Chloe Phillips Blount, he graduated from Sandy Creek Central School and served in the U.S. Navy during World War II.
He married Rose S. Stewart on Nov. 11, 1944, at Calvary Tabernacle in Watertown. The couple lived in Lacona and Sandy Creek after their marriage.
Mr. Blount owned and operated a Texaco service station and the Colonial Court Campgrounds, both of Sandy Creek, before retiring in 1984 and moving to Florida.
He attended the First United Methodist Church, Bartow. He was a former committee member for Boy Scout Troop 830, Sandy Creek, and a member and past master of Sandy Creek Lodge 564, Free and Accepted Masons.
Mr. Blount was a member and past patron of Lake Ontario Chapter 124, Order of the Eastern Star, Sandy Creek, a member of the Robert Edwards American Legion Post in Pulaski, and a former trustee and past president of the Woodlawn Cemetery Association of Sandy Creek.
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