- PETERSBURG, Ind. -- George A. Blaize, 72, died Tuesday morning at St. Mary's Medical Center in Evansville.
He was a mechanic, a World War II Navy veteran and a member of the Petersburg Moose and Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Princeton Eagles and American Legion.
Surviving are his wife, Darlene (Patrick); a daughter, Karen Sforza of Oakland City; three sons, Joe of Jasper, Terry of Hazleton and Tim of Petersburg; two sisters, Mary Schatz of Decker and Naomi Parker of Petersburg; six brothers, Hugh, Robert, Leonard and James, all of Petersburg, John of Fruitland Park, Fla., and Frank of Colorado Springs, Colo.; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a son, Tom.
Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Friday at Harris Funeral Home, with burial in Mount Tabor Cemetery in Hazleton, where the Petersburg VFW Post will conduct military rites.
Friends may call from 3 to 8 p.m. today and from 8 a.m. to service time Friday at the funeral home.
Evansville Courier & Press (IN)
Date: June 25, 1998
Edition: Final
Page: A14
Record Number: 9807280010
Copyright, 1998, Evansville Courier & Press
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