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Submitted: 12/21/20 • Approved: 12/22/20 • Last Updated: 12/25/20 • R372934-G372934-S3
Floyd O.
1908-1969
Myrtle
1909-2006
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary for Floyd
Floyd O. Blair, 60-year-old controller and assistant secretary for the J.M. Huber Corp., died in a Denver, Colo. hospital at 5:30 p.m. Thursday (Borger time) following heart surgery.
Mr. Blair reportedly suffered an aneurysm - a ruptured heart vessel - Wednesday while on a business trip to Denver, where Huber's oil and gas division is located.
He died in the General Rose Hospital there.
His wife, Myrtle, who had flown to Denver Wednesday night, and his son, Jimmy Don Blair of Amarillo, were at his bedside. His son is assistant city attorney in Amarillo.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in the First Baptist Church here, with the Rev. Joe Dee Ray, pastor, officiating.
Interment will be in the Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Ed Brown and Sons Funeral Directors.
Mr. Blair was born in Delhi, Okla. on April 14, 1908. He graduated from Sayre public schools and attended the University of Oklahoma and Hills Business College, in Oklahoma. After farming for a time near Sayre, he came to Borger in April, 1933. He joined Huber Corp, as an employee in the gasoline department on April 23, 1934. He later became a plant stillman and also served as an engine operator.
In the latter part of 1936, he was transferred to the accounting department. He later became head of this department. He also served as office manager.
He was elected controller of the corporation in May, 1946, the position he held at the time of his death.
He was a former trustee on the Borger Board of Education.
Survivors, besides his wife and son, are his mother, Mrs. Ziola Blair of Sayre; brother, Everett Blair of Dallas; and three sisters, Mrs. Glen Dowdell of Arlington, Mrs. Howard Paulsen of Miami, Fla., Mrs. W.R. Farrell of Sayre, Okla.
(Published in Borger News Herald, April 11, 1969)
*Obituary for Myrtle
THE WOODLANDS - Myrtle Blair, 96, died Wednesday, April 12, 2006.
Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. today in First Baptist Church of The Woodlands with Dr. Pete Freeman, her pastor, officiating. Arrangements are by Metcalf Funeral Home in Conroe.
Graveside services are pending in Borger, where she will be buried next to her beloved Floyd.
Myrtle Blair, known to her family as "Mom Blair," and to her friends as "Butch," passed away Wednesday at her home at The Forum in The Woodlands. She was 96 years young. Born in 1909 in Delhi, Okla., Myrtle Blair followed her husband to the oil fields of the Texas Panhandle, where they made a home in the Huber carbon black camp in Borger. Her husband, Floyd Blair, preceded her in death in 1969, and she never remarried.
She moved to Montgomery County in 1995 to be near her family, and lived independently until her death.
Survivors include a sister, Annie Mae "Dutch" Robertson of Erick, Okla.; her only child, Jimmy Don Blair, and wife Nelda Luce Blair; and her only grandchild, Maris Ann Harkins, and husband Bradley Harkins, all of Montgomery County.
Visitation with the family will be at the funeral home in Conroe.
The family suggests memorials be in memory of Myrtle Blair to the American Heart Association, Montgomery County Chapter, in care of P.O. Box 7652, The Woodlands, TX 77385.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, April 14, 2006)
Contributed on 12/21/20 by neldapat
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