IN LOVING MEMORY OF
Arlene M.
Blackburn
November 20, 1921 – May 29, 2008
Obituary
Arlene Mae Blackburn
1921 - 2008
Arlene Mae Blackburn, 86, of Sterling, died May 29, 2008, in Sterling. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, June 2, at Chaney-Reager Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 3, at First Baptist Church, with the Revs. John E. Roberts and David Baines officiating. Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery.
Arlene was born Nov. 20, 1921, to Ernest and Grace (Adams) Olson. She was the eldest of nine children, born on a farm near Harlan, Iowa. She graduated from Kirkman Consolidated School, Kirkman, Iowa, and then attended Commercial Extension Business School in Omaha, Neb.
She graduated from Immanuel Deaconess School of Nursing in Omaha as a registered nurse. She worked as an industrial nurse for the Cudahy Meat Packing Co. in Omaha. She became director of nursing and then administrator of the Oakland Memorial Hospital in Oakland, Neb. She then transferred to the Logan County Hospital, where she worked 19 years on the 3-11 shift. Arlene will be remembered as a nurse who cared. She retired after 37 years of nursing.
On May 27, 1967, Arlene married W.E. "Pete" Blackburn, whom she met at the hospital after he was injured when he was thrown from a horse. She had a supporting role in her husband's many endeavors and on the farm and ranch he owned and operated.
She was a member of First Baptist Church, District No. 1 Colorado Nurses Association, Zonta International, Auxiliary of the American Legion, VFW Auxiliary, the National Cattle Association, and a charter member of Sterling Does of the Elks Lodge.
Her hobbies were reading and needlework, especially needlepoint.
Arlene is survived by her sisters, Jane Fuller of Edina, Minn., and Marilyn Meier of Lancaster, Calif.; brothers, Edwin Olson and wife Wilma of Harlan, Iowa, and Alfred Olson, also of Harlan; her caregiver, Sharon Day of Sterling; and a host of other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Pete Blackburn, in 1999; her parents; and four sisters, Lucille Beryl, Norma Jean Olson, Betty Erickson and Barbara McLaren.
Memorials may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.
1921 - 2008
Arlene Mae Blackburn, 86, of Sterling, died May 29, 2008, in Sterling. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday, June 2, at Chaney-Reager Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 3, at First Baptist Church, with the Revs. John E. Roberts and David Baines officiating. Burial will be at Riverside Cemetery.
Arlene was born Nov. 20, 1921, to Ernest and Grace (Adams) Olson. She was the eldest of nine children, born on a farm near Harlan, Iowa. She graduated from Kirkman Consolidated School, Kirkman, Iowa, and then attended Commercial Extension Business School in Omaha, Neb.
She graduated from Immanuel Deaconess School of Nursing in Omaha as a registered nurse. She worked as an industrial nurse for the Cudahy Meat Packing Co. in Omaha. She became director of nursing and then administrator of the Oakland Memorial Hospital in Oakland, Neb. She then transferred to the Logan County Hospital, where she worked 19 years on the 3-11 shift. Arlene will be remembered as a nurse who cared. She retired after 37 years of nursing.
On May 27, 1967, Arlene married W.E. "Pete" Blackburn, whom she met at the hospital after he was injured when he was thrown from a horse. She had a supporting role in her husband's many endeavors and on the farm and ranch he owned and operated.
She was a member of First Baptist Church, District No. 1 Colorado Nurses Association, Zonta International, Auxiliary of the American Legion, VFW Auxiliary, the National Cattle Association, and a charter member of Sterling Does of the Elks Lodge.
Her hobbies were reading and needlework, especially needlepoint.
Arlene is survived by her sisters, Jane Fuller of Edina, Minn., and Marilyn Meier of Lancaster, Calif.; brothers, Edwin Olson and wife Wilma of Harlan, Iowa, and Alfred Olson, also of Harlan; her caregiver, Sharon Day of Sterling; and a host of other relatives and friends.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Pete Blackburn, in 1999; her parents; and four sisters, Lucille Beryl, Norma Jean Olson, Betty Erickson and Barbara McLaren.
Memorials may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.
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