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Linel Blackwell Freeman

Linel Blackwell Freeman

GLADSTONE — Linel Blackwell Freeman, 95, of Gladstone passed away Monday, May 8, 2017 at the Pinecrest Medical Care Facility in Powers. Funeral services and burial were on Monday, May 15 in Collins, Miss.

Mrs. Freeman was born on Oct. 11, 1921 in Covington County, Miss. She retired as a loan officer from the Wells Fargo Bank after numerous years of service in the Los Angeles and San Diego, Calif. areas. Mrs. Freeman was a member of the Baptist faith. She loved baseball, bowling, and fishing.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Henry Plummer Blackwell and Adeline Robertson Blackwell; four sisters, Martha Jeanes, Jennie Lind Sanford, Amy Lois Thompson, and Clara Morse; and eight brothers, Winfred Blackwell, William Walker Blackwell, Eccle Blackwell, Virgil Blackwell, David Sanky Blackwell, Talmadge Blackwell, Burton Blackwell, and Henry Blackwell.

Survivors include her significant other, Genny Meyer of Gladstone seven nieces, DeAnna Humbert, Annette Pierce, Billie Sue Dickens (Harold), Jacaline Fleming, Henrietta Corley, Susan Bourgeois, and Liz Griffin (Bert); and a host of great-nieces and great-nephews.

The Skradski Family Funeral Homes of Escanaba and Gladstone assisted the Freeman family. Please visit ­www.skradskifuneralhomes.comwhere you can express your sympathy to the family.