John Blackledge

I met John when I was a Seventh grader at Mansfield Jr. high school. We became good friends and our association lasted through our college years at the University of Arizona. I was one of John´s best men at his wedding to Cleta. After university, John moved to Phoenix and not too long afterwords to Richardson, Texas where he spent the rest of his life. Our reunions where sparse for many years but we kept in touch. In 2006 while John, by then retired, was working on his private pilots license...

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