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Benjamin M. Blue 12-1991 Submitted by: Tim Dotterer
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Graveside service for Benjamin M. Blue, 82, was at 2 PM Thursday at Cherokee Municipal Cemetery with the Rev. Glenn E. Gerber officiating. Arrangements were by Goodwin Funeral Home. Blue died December 27, 1991, in Salinas, California.
He was born may 14, 1909, in Protection, Kansas, to Meech and Mae Bragg Blue and attended schools in Cherokee. He graduated from Alva High School. He attended Northwestern Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma A&M College where he played basketball. He later played on a semi-– professional team in Wichita. He was employed with Santa Fe Trailways in Wichita, later in the freight department of Santa Fe and Continental. He lived in various locations before moving to Salinas where he owned a freight–brokerage firm.
On October 31, 1933, he married Virginia Lancaster in Cherokee. He married Betty Westover in 1950 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a member of the Friends Church, Beta Theta Pi and Orion Club.
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