CALDONIA BLAND

HAYWOOD CITY -- Caldonia Blackmon Bland, 51, died Monday, Aug. 25, 1997, at her daughter's home in Sikeston.

She was born Sept. 16, 1945, in Tunica, Miss., the daughter of John Daniel and Dorothy Mae Selma Blackmon.

She attended school at South Pemiscot in Steele and was a member of the House of Prayer Church of God in Christ in Morley.

Survivors include: her husband, Ernest George Bland Sr. of Memphis; a son, Ernest George Bland Jr. of Sikeston; six daughters, Xavier Bland of Cape Girardeau; Joyce Scott, Emily Bland, Caldonia Carmela Taylor, Rosie Bratcher and Bernadette Bland all of Sikeston; eight brothers, T. C. Blackmon and Emmanuel Blackmon of Chicago, Willie Denson of Pacific, Mo., John D. Blackmon and Nathaniel Blackmon of Oran, Robert Blackmon of Cape Girardeau, Jerry Blackmon of Sikeston and Russell Phifer of Parma; eight sisters, Beverly Blackmon of Chicago, Annette Whalen of Boston, Dorothy Chamberlain of Oran, Ethel Hamilton and Brenda Blackmon of Sikeston, Earnestine Balckmon of Haywood City, Mary Blackmon of Cape Girardeau and Deidra Phifer of Columbia, Mo.; 19 grandchildren and a special friend, Jesse Lee Smoot of Haywood City.

Her parents, a sister and a brother preceded her in death.

Friends may call from noon until 2 p.m. Saturday at the Green Memorial Church of God in Christ in Sikeston.

Funeral services will be at the church at 2 p.m. Saturday with Elder Robert Earl Gipson officiating. Burial will be in the Haywood City Cemetery.

Williams-Farr and Purnell Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements.