Louise S. Blackwood
March 16, 1913 ~ December 12, 2004
Resided in:
Asheville, NC
Louise Stone Blackwood, 91, of 818 Emma Road, Asheville, died Sunday, December 12, 2004, at her home.
A native of Chapel Hill she was a daughter of the late William Edgar and Martha Menta Merritt Stone. She was married to Ralph Lee Blackwood who died in 2002. She was a former bookkeeper with Blue Cross/Blue Shield and she was a member of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church in Chapel Hill for 80 years. More recently she attended Emma United Methodist Church.
Surviving are two sons and daughters-in-law, Ralph and Carol Blackwood of Asheville and Robert and Louise Blackwood of Melbourne, FL; six grandchildren, Kim Jacobs, Bert Blackwood, Randy Blackwood, Rick Kirkpatrick, Jon Kirkpatrick, and Mark Kirkpatrick and twenty-one great-grandchildren.
A funeral service will be at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday in the Patton Avenue chapel of Groce Funeral Home with the Revs. Beverly W. Colombo and S. Wesley Sharpe officiating. Burial will be Wednesday at Mt. Carmel Cemetery in Chapel Hill.
Her family will receive friends immediately following the service Tuesday at the funeral home and request that memorials be made to Mountain Area Hospice, PO Box 25338, Asheville, NC 28813.
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I am sorry, but I did not know Mrs Blackwood. I am a member of the decendsants of Allison Haywood Blackwood and Annie Jane Pendergrass and they were both of the Mt Carmel – Chapel Hill area. I may or may not be in the same Blackwoow clan. Please accept my sincere condolencense.
Norman L. Crew
My great-grandmother was an exceptional woman, and I hope that all of us who survive her live as great a life as she did. I love you, Grandmommy, and I will miss you terribly.
I would like to express my sincere condolences to the family. I did not know Louise, but I work for her grandson Jon Kirkpatrick. What a blessing it was for her to live 91 wonderful years!
As a member of John Kirkpatrick’s Asheville Police Department family, I would like to expess my condolences to the entire Blackwood family for your loss. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the family
Our hearts are with you during this time of sorrow. Amy and Kim with Community Family Practice
I don’t know if you remember me or not, but I am Terri Hoeflein, Marye Elizabeth Blackwood Hoeflein’s daughter. I was real saddened to hear of your Mother’s death, I check the obituaries in the Durham Herald-Sun every couple of days. Our thoughts and prayers are with your families. Take care of yourselves and please keep in touch.
Terri Cartwright
757-432-0402
We enjoyed Louse and her husband’s company at family gatherings in her son’s home. In spite of her age, we always felt she was a comtemporary woman, grounded in family, church and community. Everyone will miss her!
I’ve known Louise as long as I can remember. My mother, Eula Blackwood Williams had a beauty shop in our home, and Louise was there every week to get her hair done. I remember fondly the talks that I had as a youngster with Louise – and even working together on crochet projects. I probably had more friends who were over 60 (I was less than 15), but always enjoyed the stories they would tell me. My mother missed Louise terribly when she moved to Asheville. It was a blessing to call her a friend.
My thoughts and prayers go out to her family and friends. She was a cherished member of Mt Carmel for many years.
Norma McKay
Chapel Hill NC