Blackburn 60th
Ira and Winifred Blackburn
Featured in: November 2015
BLACKBURN 60th
Ira and Winifred "Freddie" Blackburn celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary June 6, 2015, in Payette, Idaho with a potluck.
Both Ira and Freddie graduated from Campion Academy in Colorado in 1954. Ira went into the Army in March 1955, and they were married June 6, 1955, in Craig, Colo. They spent the first 21 months of their marriage in Washington, D.C., while Ira participated in the Army's biodefense research program Operation Whitecoat.
In time, they worked and went to school. Ira graduated in 1974 from Union College in Lincoln, Neb. They worked at Sheyenne River Academy in North Dakota, at Oakpark Academy in Iowa, and Platte Valley Academy in Nebraska. They also served at Lavida Mission in New Mexico. They continued working at various types of work until retirement.
Their family includes sons Tom of Russellville, Ark.; Don of Goodland, Kan.; Ron of Payette, Idaho; adopted daughter, Kendra, of Meridian, Idaho; 8 grandchildren and 6 great-grandchildren.