Cecil Buchanan Blair and Opal Martin Surrena

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Husband Cecil Buchanan Blair ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1 Dec 1911 2
     Christened: 
           Died: Jun 1981 - ? Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA
         Buried:  - Old Log Cemetery, Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 3

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         Father: John Shedrick Blair (Abt 1888-      ) 1 2
         Mother: Mabel Lois Buchanan (Abt 1889-      ) 1 2

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       Marriage: 2 Apr 1931 2

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Wife Opal Martin Surrena ²

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           Born: 1 Aug 1913 - Irwin Twp, Venango Co, PA 2
     Christened: 
           Died: 1 Jun 2002 - ? Clintonville, Clinton Twp, Venango Co, PA
         Buried: 

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         Father: William Carl "Carl" Surrena (1888-1974) 4 5
         Mother: Gertrude Delilah Martin (1890-1981) 4 5

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Children

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1 M Merle Sherman Blair ⁶

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           Born: 18 Jan 1939 6
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           Died: 12 Jul 2004 - ? Clarion, Clarion Co, PA
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Loretta Mae Hoffman (1939-      ) 6
           Marr: 28 May 1958 - ? Venango Co, PA 7

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2 F Karen Elaine Blair ⁶

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           Born: 12 Feb 1946 6
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Gerald Edward Humphrey (1944-      ) 6
           Marr: 2 Sep 1966 - Harrisville, Mercer Twp, Butler Co, PA 6

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General Notes: Husband - Cecil Buchanan Blair

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SSDI: CECIL BLAIR 01 Dec 1911 Jun 1981 16372 (Clintonville, Venango, PA) (none specified) 210-01-6524 Pennsylvania

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General Notes: Wife - Opal Martin Surrena

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She and her husband owned and operated Blairs Hardware in Clintonville, PA, later selling this store and buying another in Parker, PA. She not only helped in the hardware store, she did clerical work for Rankin Lumber Company. They were also a husband and wife auction team - a familiar scene on the auctioneering block. They were graduates of Reish School of Auctioneering at Mason City, Iowa, in 1962. Opal was one of the very few women who were members of the National Auctioneering Association. In the year of 1969 there were only three licensed women auctioneers in the state of Pennsylvania. She was a member of the Eastern Star Lodge Nursery Chap­ter #25 at Franklin, PA, and a chapter member of Queen Ester White Shrine #49, Oil City, PA.

SSDI: OPAL M BLAIR 01 Aug 1913 01 Jun 2002 (V) 16372 (Clintonville, Venango, PA) (none specified) 160-30-7971 Pennsylvania

1 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 624.

2 Claudine Adams Diemert, The Descendants of David Martin (Self-published.), Pg 125.

3 Venango County Historical Society, Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories, Vol. 1, Irwin, Mineral, & Victory Townships (Franklin, PA: Venango County Historical Society, 1992), Pg 83.

4 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 1019.

5 Claudine Adams Diemert, The Descendants of David Martin (Self-published.), Pg 122.

6 Claudine Adams Diemert, The Descendants of David Martin (Self-published.), Pg 126.

7 Ruby Jane (Bailey) McCord, Genealogy of the Phipps Family (Self-published), Pg 45.