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Show WORD COMES OF DEATH OF LOCAL SOLDIER Pvt. Jack Benny Blackett, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blackett Black-ett of Maywood, Calif., formerly of Springville, died on May 8, V-E Day, in Germany, acording to the word from the War Department. A letter received by the family in California from Jack, said he was celebrating V-E Day, so the family is anxious to hear further details of the cause of his death. He was born in Springville on Aug. 20, 1926, and attended school here and also at Huntington Park high school. He moved with his. parents to Maywood, Calif., in 1938. He entered the service in August Aug-ust of 1944, and took seventeen weeks of training at Camp Roberts, Rob-erts, Calif. He was two weeks in Maryland, before going overseas in February of this year. His mother, Mrs. Frank Blackett, Black-ett, was in Springville when word of her son's death reached her. Her sons, Lewis and Grant Blackett, Black-ett, came to Springville and accompanied ac-companied her back to California. Surviving, besides the parents, are six brothers and sisters, Lewis Lew-is - Blakett, Lynwood, Calif.; Mrs. Lloyd Bulkley and Mrs. Jane Tous-ley, Tous-ley, Maywood, Calif.; Mrs. Dorothy Doro-thy Nelson, Panama Canal Zone; Grant Blackett, Bell, Calif.; Glenn Blackett, Huntington Park, Calif. |