Frances Bush and Herbert Henley Blair

HERBERT HENLEY BLAIR, son of MARY ELEANOR HENLEY and DAVID ELLMORE BLAIR, was born July 23, 1903 in Joplin, Jasper, Missouri,⁴⁷⁶⁰ and died July 15, 1999.⁴⁷⁶⁰

He married FRANCES BUSH on May 23, 1936 in Milwaukee, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.⁴⁷⁶¹ She was born July 30, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri,⁴⁵⁶ and died June 28, 1971 in Springfield, Greene, Missouri.⁹⁷⁸⁷ She is buried in Fairview Cemetery, Sweet Springs, Saline, Missouri.⁴⁵⁶

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Herbert H. Blair

• was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, St. Louis, Missouri. ⁴⁷⁶⁰
• was a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Oklahoma. ⁴⁷⁶⁰

Daily Capital News, June 4, 1936⁴⁷⁶¹

Former Resident Married

Of interest locally is the announcement of the marriage of Miss Frances Bush, of Milwaukee, Wis., to Herbert Henley Blair, son of former Supreme Judge David E. Blair and Mrs. Blair who lived in Jefferson City for a number of years.

The wedding took place in Milwaukee May 23. Mr. and Mrs. Blair are making their home in Kansas City.

Joplin Globe, June 14, 1936⁴⁷⁶⁴

Of interest to Joplin friends is the marriage of Miss Frances Bush, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Bush of Milwaukee, to Mr. Henley Blair of Kansas City, son of Judge David Blair and Mrs. Blair of this city. The wedding took place May 23 in the home of the bride's parents. The ceremony was read by the Rev. Andres Gladstone Finnie, pastor of the Immanuel Presbyterian church of Milwaukee.

Mr. Bush escorted his daughter to the improvised altar, which was flanked on either side with tall standards filled with calla lilies, white stock, larkspur, lilacs, snapdragons and gladioli. Tapers in tall candelabra lighted the scent and bowls of white flowers decorated the room.

The bride wore a gown of white crepe de chine over luster satin. White silk stitching outlined the small V in the back, the seams of the sleeves and the pointed cuff of the long sleeves. Caught to the wide girdle that encircled the waistline was a long train that fell over the shorter train that graduated from the skirt to the gown. A twisted cap of tulle held the bride's long tulle veil. She carried a pendant shaped bouquet of gardenias and lilies of the valley.

Preceding the bride to the altar were the attendants, Miss Marle Kuehn, Miss Sara Smith of Sweet Springs, Mo., a cousin of the bridegroom, and Miss Eleanor Blair, a sister of the bridegroom. Their bouffant gowns were fashioned alike of delicate apple green mouseline de soie. With the gowns the girls wore matching jackets, fitted at the waistline with a slight pelem at the hips, full puff sleeves and small ruffled collars marking the necklines. Two velvet ribbons, one light violet and the other dar violet, encircled the waistlines of the gowns and fell in loose streamers down the front. To match the violet ribbons, purple sweet peas were used in the girls' round bouquets of swansonia, lilies of the valley and double French white lilacs. The brimmed hats of the attendants were of the pale green mousseline de soie.

Richard Dudley Shewmaker of St. Louis was the best man and the ushers were the bride's cousin, Donald Barlety of Milwaukee, and Charles Orr of Kansas City.

Mrs. Bush, the bride's mother, wore a gown of dusty pink organza with shoulder bouquet of cybidium orchids. The bridegroom's mother, Mrs. David E. Blair of Joplin, Mo., who with Judge Blair attended their son's wedding, wore a flowered chiffon gown with camhamiama orchids.

After the ceremony the young people remained standing before the fireplace to greet their friends. The wedding dinner was served at small tables of 10 for the guests and a larger table for the wedding party. In the center of the bride's table was the wedding cake and around it were bowls of white lilacs, lilies of the valley and swainsona. The other tables, too, had bowls of white spring flowers. White candles lighted the tables.

Among the out of town guests at the wedding were Mr. and Mrs. George Ganz of Fort Peck, Mont.; Mr. and Mrs. Balfour Phelan and Robert Goodstead of Chicago, Thomas Carter Johnson and Mrs. J. D. Bartlety of St. Louis, Mr. and Mrs. D. P. Bartley, Mrs. Kirk Smith and Miss Ada and Mis Ida Bush of Fulton, Mo., and William Bush Smith of Philadelphia.

Mr. Blair and his bride will live at 3332 Gillam road, Kansas City.

The bride is an active member of the Milwaukee Junior league. Mr. Blair's father has been the holder of one of the highest legal offices in Missouri—a judge of the supreme court of the state.

Sedalia Democrat, June 1, 1971

Mrs. Frances Bush Blair

SWEET SPRINGS — Mrs. Frances Bush Blair, 64, died at the Cox Medical Center in Springfield Friday.

She is survived by one son, Robert Blair, Springfield; and one daughter, Mrs. Michael Scott, Springfield.

Graveside services will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday at Fairview Cemetery here under the direction of the Miller Funeral Home.

Oklahoman, July 18, 1999⁴⁷⁶⁰

BLAIR Herbert Henley died July 15, 1999. Henley was born in Joplin, Missouri, July 23, 1903; son of Judge David E. Blair and Mary Eleanor Henley Blair. After attending schools in Joplin and Jefferson City, Missouri, he graduated from Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri with an AB degree. He received his LLB from the University of Missouri at Columbia, Missouri. His legal fraternity was Phi Delta Phi; his social fraternity, Phi Delta Theta. After practicing law in St. Louis and Kansas City, Henley came to Oklahoma City in 1954 as resident attorney for Prudential Insurance Company. He was a member of the American Bar Association, State and local Associations and was president of the Real Property Law Section one term as well as president of the Oklahoma City Title Attorney's Association. His civic involvement included membership and president one year of the Oklahoma Museum of Art. He was a member of the Beacon Club for forty years. Henley was a Deacon in Westminster Presbyterian Church of St. Louis and a Trustee and Elder in Westminister Presbyterian Church of Oklahoma City, and a faithful member of the Men's Breakfast Club. Predeceased by his parents and two sisters, Mabel and Eleanor and his first wife, Frances Bush, Henley is survived by his wife Margaret of the home, his two children; Robert David, his wife Sally and, his grandson Joshua and Peggy Sue, both of Norman; also, several nieces and nephews. Memorial services will be held at Westminster Presbyterian Church at 12:00 noon, Monday July 19th. Memorials may be made to Westminster Foundation or a chairity of one's choice.