Newspaper unknown-September 1959 BLAIR, John Floyd Mr. Blair was a veteran Lower Columbia area logger and a member of a pioneer Grays River family. He died Saturday at a local hospital where he had been a patient two days. He had been failing for about two years and had been hospitalized twice during the past month. He would have been 76 next month. Blair, who had lived in Clatsop county for almost half century, was born in Grays River, the son of John and Nancy Blair, who were pioneers in that region. While still in his early teens, he worked on a dairy farm and after completing his schooling, went into logging, the occupation which he followed during the rest of his lifetime. He had worked at various logging jobs and was for some time a logging locomotive brakeman and engineer, and for many years prior to his retirement, was a boom foreman. On July 4, 1914, Blair and Hilda Takalo were married in Astoria. They made their home at various times in Brownsmead and the Youngs River district where they have for the past 30 years lived. Surviving are his wife; two sons, Robert H. of Eugene, and Philip J.; two daughters, Doris Shepard of Sacramento, Calif., and Nancy Flint of Arlington, Va.; a brother, Roy V., of Portland and 11 grandchildren. Hughes-Ransom Murtuary was in charge. Hughes-Ransom Mortuary 02 Oct 1883-05 Sep 1959 (As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society Museum)