Nicholas Scott Bledsoe

1991 - 2011

Nicholas Bledsoe

Nicholas Scott Bledsoe, 19, of Okawville, Ill., departed this life in the emergency room of the Washington County Hospital in Nashville, Ill., at 10:05 p.m. on Thursday, March 3, 2011, due to injuries sustained in a farming accident.

Nicholas was born in St. Louis, Mo., on Nov. 28, 1991, the son of Donald and Vickey, nee Ruffin, Bledsoe.

Nick was currently a senior at Okawville High School where he served as senior class president. Nick was a member of the F.F.A., golf team, basketball team, and the Clay Crushers Trap Shooting Team. He also served as a sweetheart candidate escort, a member of the Student Leadership Team, and a member of the Principal's Advisory Board. Nick was second runner up of the King Kahuna his junior year and was recently voted Homecoming King. Nick loved the Okawville Rockets and was proud of his school. He never met a stranger and was always willing to help those in need.

Nick enjoyed four wheeling. He loved to take friends down to Southern Illinois to go four wheeling on the 50 wooded acres that his family owned. He also loved boating, camping, telling jokes, and working at Elm Farms. He liked working on his truck and car and would only drive a Chevy. He was a big NASCAR fan and followed Dale Earnhardt Jr. Nick enjoyed spending time with friends and family and loved being a big brother to his sister Hanna.

He was preceded in death by his paternal grandparents, Lloyd and Clara Mae Bledsoe; and his maternal grandfather, Leon Ruffin.

Surviving are his parents, Donald and Vickey Bledsoe of Okawville, Ill.; sister, Hanna Bledsoe at home; maternal grandmother, Patsy Ruffin of East Cape Girardeau, Ill.; three uncles Tim Bledsoe of Olive Branch, Ill.; Chris Bledsoe and wife, Stephanie and their daughter Clara of Cape Girardeau, Mo.; and Stan Harris and wife, Bonnie and their daughter, Dawn of Columbia, Ill.; an aunt, Cathy Gottman of Highland, Ill., and her daughters, Jamie Thierauf, Carrie Burns and Shari Watson, all of St. Louis, Mo.; several great-uncles and great-aunts as well as many friends.

Should friends desire, memorials may be made to a college fund that will be established for Nick's sister, Hanna. Online expressions of sympathy may be made at www.campagnafuneralhomes.com.

Visitation: Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 7, 2011, at the Okawville Junior/Senior High School's Luechtefeld Gymnasium in Okawville, Ill.

Funeral: Funeral services will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday, March 8, 2011, in Luechtefeld Gymnasium at the Okawville Junior/Senior High School with Pastor Jeffrey Schwab officiating. Interment will be in the International Order of Oddfellows Cemetery in Okawville, Ill.

CAMPAGNA FUNERAL HOME, Okawville, Ill.