| Obituary | Lucien R. VanBlaricum, 54, of 320 Fifteenth street, died at 6.40 a.m. today at Bartholomew county hospital. Mr. VanBlaricum formerly worked as a decorator and painter but has been employed more recently as an electronics technician for Arvin Industries. He had been in ill health some time and was taken to the hospital Saturday.
Mr VanBlaricum was born May 19, 191l, at Grammer to Clinton and Grace May Wasson VanBlaricum and was a member of the Gospel Center church at Petersburg. His wife, the former Dorine Brown, whom he married March 22, 1945, survives. Mr VanBlaricum served in the Army during the second world war.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Saturday at Reed funeral home by the Rev H. Porter Wynn. Burial will be at Petersburg cemetery. Persons may call at the funeral home after 6 p.m. Thursday.
Surviving with the wife are five sons, Lucien R. VanBlaricum, Jr and Clinton
VanBlaricum, both of Albuquerque, N.M., Robert Lawson VanBlaricum of Vincennes, Wayne VanBlaricum, serving in the U.S. Navy and James Ivan
VanBlaricum, at home; two daughters, Mrs. Margaret Hiam of Nashville,
Tenn., and Miss Kathryn E. VanBlaricum, at home; three brothers, Leland, Stanley and Ebert VanBlaricum, all of Columbus: three sisters, Mrs. Violet Classon of Columbus, Mrs. Juanita Britton of Lansing, Mich., and Mrs. Irene
Crippen of Taylorsville and five grandchildren.The Republic, July 7, 1965 |
