William Ivan "Bill" Blagg, Jr. b. 11 Dec 1937 Mount Nebo, Nicholas Co., WV d. 17 Jun 2008 Beckley, Raleigh Co., WV: Meadow Bluff Meanderings

1937 - 2008 (70 years)

Name	William Ivan "Bill" Blagg
Suffix	Jr.
Nickname	Bill
Birth	11 Dec 1937	Mount Nebo, Nicholas Co., WV [1]
Gender	Male
Military	US Army
Death	17 Jun 2008	Beckley, Raleigh Co., WV [2]
Burial	21 Jun 2008	Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV [3]
Person ID	I16517	Meadow Bluff Meanderings
Last Modified	1 May 2017

Father	William Ivy "Bill" Blagg, Sr., b. 18 Apr 1895, Newville, Braxton Co., WV d. 11 Jan 1989, Hinton, Summers Co., WV (Age 93 years)
Mother	Sarah Jane "Martha" King, b. 26 Feb 1908, Hilltop, Fayette Co., WV d. 11 Jan 1997, Fairlea, Greenbrier Co., WV (Age 88 years)
Marriage	11 May 1936	Summersville, Nicholas Co., WV [4]
	Married by Karl M. Scott, a minister of the gospel, Summersville, WV.
Family ID	F6751	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family 1	Shirley Ann Day
Marriage	1962	Pasquotank Co., NC [5]
Family ID	F14298	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	4 Jun 2010

Family 2 Drema Mae Graham

Children

	1. Elizabeth Ann "Beth" Blagg
	2. Sherry Lynn Blagg
	3. William Everette "Billy" Blagg
	4. Michael David Blagg

Family ID F7168 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 8 Jun 2010

Event Map

Birth - 11 Dec 1937 - Mount Nebo, Nicholas Co., WV

Burial - 21 Jun 2008 - Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV

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Photos
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Notes

The Beckley Register-Herald, Beckley, WV, Online Edition, 20 June 2008

LAYLAND - William "Bill" Blagg, 70, of Chestnut Knob Road, Layland, passed away Tuesday morning, June 17, 2008, at Veteran?s Medical Center, Beckley, with his family by his side.

Born Dec. 11, 1937, at Mt. Nebo, he was the son of the late William I. Blagg Sr. and Martha Sarah King Blagg.

Bill was a U. S. Army veteran, a long time volunteer for the Danese Ambulance Service, a retired coal miner, a member of the UMWA and a timber cutter.

Other than his parents, he was preceded in death by two sisters, Maxine Fox and Mae Blagg; and three brothers, Jim, Lee and Herb Blagg.

Survivors include his wife of 42 years, Drema Mae Graham Blagg of Layland; three daughters, Sherry Hodakowski (Freeman) of Ft. Campbell, Ky., Megan Blagg of Ft. Campbell, Ky., and Elizabeth Hill (Kevin) of Beckley; two sons, William E. Blagg of Beckley and Michael Blagg (Stephanie) of Layland; a daughter-in-law, Lorie Brown of Martinsburg; five sisters, Connie Garten of Danese, Kay Hunter of Meadow Bluff, Kendall Lane of Greensboro, N.C., Juanita Self of Louisville, Ky., and Betty Stump of Rainelle; two brothers, Carl Blagg of Danese and Dennis Blagg of Big Stone Gap, Va.; 10 grandchildren, Samantha Cushard, Sabrina Arevalo, Jason Cushard, Christopher Brown, Dylan Hodakowski, Becky Blagg, Josh Hodakowski, Hayden Blagg, Bethany Turner and Haley Turner; two great-grandchildren, Jazmine and Dominic Arevalo; several nieces and nephews; and many long time friends in the Danese and Layland area.

Service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at the Wallace & Wallace Chapel in Rainelle with the Rev. William Lilly officiating. Burial will follow at Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville.

Friends may call 6 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Arrangements by Wallace & Wallace of Rainelle.

Sources

[S795] Nicholas Co., WV BB 4, page 19 (Reliability: 3).
[S671] Information from Kay Hunter.
[S866] Obituary: The Beckley Register-Herald.
[S1307] West Virginia. Nicholas County., Nicholas Co., WV Marriage Register, (Digital images. West Virginia Division of Culture and History, \i West Virginia Vital Research Records\i0 . http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/ : 2010.), 11 Jun 2010, marriage register p.72, Blagg-King, 1936; accessed 11 Jun 2010. (Reliability: 3).
[S1297] North Carolina. North Carolina State Center for Health Statistics., North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2011, (http://www.ancestry.com :2015.), 4 Jun 2010, North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741-2004." Pasquotank County, 7, 283, Blagg-Day, accessed 4 Jun 2010. (Reliability: 3).