Information courtesy of Roger Hopkins 2 June 2003

Grand Prairie News

Grand Prairie, Texas

January 5, 1979

Area Death

Funeral service for Vena Blackburn were 2:30 p.m. today at the Moore Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Hugh Caffey officiating. Burial followed at Moore Memorial Gardens.

She died Wednesday at Grand Prairie Community Hospital.

She was owner and operator of Blackburn’s Photography Studio for 10 years.

Survivors include the husband, J. D. Blackburn of Grand Prairie; and two brothers, teh Rev. R.B. Eschmeyer of Lansing, Mich. and Dr. Paul Eschmeyer of Fort Collins, Colo.

(Personal note....Vena was George Edgar Cron’s second wife)