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Show KENNETH BLACKNER DIES IN CALIFORNIA FUNERAL IN BEAVER Kenneth Blackner, 28, son of William Wil-liam T. Blackner died in a San Francisco Fran-cisco hospital Sunday. The young man died of complications following four operations, in which both legs were amputated at the hips. When Kenneth was 8 years of age his right leg was amputated haK way between the knee and the hip. While climbing on the back of a buggy as he was going home from school at noon, his leg caught in the wheel and he was whipped around the wheel. Owing to a diabetical condition gangrene developed this spring, and on May 17 Mr. and Mrs. Blackner were called to his bedside and the left leg was then amputated to the knee. Two weeks later four more inches were taken off. The remaining remain-ing portions of the legs were taken off to the hips July 18. He married Emma Zonner in San Francisco in December, 1928. He has made his living singing at various var-ious radio stations and cabarets. A sister and brother survive, Mrs. Loreene Beeze, Salt Lake; Allen Blackner, and two half-sisters, Mae and Iris Blackner; his stepmother, Mrs. Clara H. Blackner, Beaver. He was a cousin to Anold Blackner, The remains will jbe brought o Beaver Wednesday night for interment inter-ment in Beaver cemetery. |