Bledsoe, Mrs. Phillip (Kays, Leora)
    Mrs. Leora Bledsoe, 94 , of Route <br?, Versailles, died Tuesday night,
Sept. 14, 1971, at Bothwell Hospital, Sedalia, where she had been a
patient 10 days.
   Funeral services for Mrs. Bledsoe were at 2 p. m. Friday at
Griswold-Kays Chapel in Eldon with burial in the Versailles Cemetery.
   Mrs. Bledsoe was born March 17, 1877 in Texas, the daughter of the
late John Jack and Mary Ann Lanman Kays.
   She was married in Zebra, Mo., on Sept. 7, 1897 to Phillip A Bledsoe.
They spent their married life in Miller and Morgan counties.  Mr.
Bledsoe died in 1958.
    Mrs. Bledsoe was a member of the Barnett Baptist Church.
    She leaves four generations of descendants.  Surviving are one son,
Everett Bledsoe, of Fortuna; four daughters, Mrs. Maude Kehr and Mrs.
Ann Tyler of Eldon, and Mrs. Edith Shearer and Mrs. Opal Noland of
Versailles;  11 grandchildren;  23 great grandchildren; and six great
great grandchildren.
   The Rev. August E. Williams officiated at the funeral services Friday
afternoon.

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