JEROME DANIEL BLACKMON

HAYWOOD CITY -- Jerome Daniel Blackmon, 43, of Haywood City died suddenly Thursday, June 26, 1997, in a farming accident near Charter Oak.

He was born July 31, 1953, in Leland, Miss., son of the late John and Dorothy Mae Selma Blackmon. On July 4, 1978, he married Jeesie Bell Harris, who survives the home.

He attended Scott County Central High School and had been active in agriculture for over 25 years.

He is survived by five daughters, Tonia and Tabitha Harris, Christina Sheron, and Ronesia Turner, all of Sikeston, and Tawana Stewart of Milwaukee, Wis.; eight brothers, J.C. and Emmanuel Blackmon of Chicago, Ill., Willie Denson of Pacific, John D. and Nathaniel Blackmon of Oran, Robert Blackmon of Cape Girardeau, Jerry Blackmon of Sikeston, and Russell Phifer of Parma; nine sisters, Beverly Blackmon of Chicago, Annette Whalen of Boston, Mass., Caldonia Bland and Dorothy Chamberlain of Oran, Ethel Hamilton and Brenda Blackmon of Sikeston, Earnestine Blackmon of Haywood City, Mary Blackmon of Cape Girardeau and Deidra Phifer of Columbia.

He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister.

Friends may call Monday at the Williams-Farr and Purnell Funeral Home in Sikeston from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday at the West End Missionary Baptist Church in Sikeston. Interment will follow in the Haywood City Cemetery.