Services for Martha L. Blackwell of Kentwood, La., were 1 p.m.Friday, July 28 at McKneely Funeral Home in Kentwood with burial inWoodland Cemetery in Kentwood

Mrs. Blackwell, 96, died July 26, 2006, at Kentwood ManorNursing Home in Kentwood. She was a native of St. Helena Parish,La. She was born on Oct. 4, 1909.

Preceding her in death were her husband, J. D. Vernon BlackwellSr.; her son, J. D. Vernon Blackwell Jr.; two brothers and threesisters.

Survivors are her son and daughter-in-law, John Alan and MaryAlice Blackwell, of Kentwood; six grandchildren, Alan RayBlackwell, Marty Blackwell, Carolyn Boyd, Johnny “Duke” Blackwell,Michael Blackwell, Jeffery Blackwell; 13 great-grandchildren; 11great-great-grandchildren; her daughter-in-law, Amy Lee Rainbolt,of Pine Bluff, Ark.; her sister, Agnes Wing, of Portland, Ore.; anda special niece, Willard Stanley, of Brookhaven.