From the Moultrie (GA) Observer online: "Odessa Blalock West ALBANY -- Odessa Blalock West, 97, of 1904 Palmyra Road, Albany, died Friday, Dec. 26, 2003, at Palmyra Nursing Home. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 30, at Banks Funeral Home Chapel in Sylvester. Interment will be in Mt. Pisgah Cemetery. The Rev. C.R. Gamble will officiate. Mrs. West was born Aug. 5, 1906, in Muscogee County, Ga., to William Patrick Blalock and Mattie Carrie Pate Blalock. She lived in Colquitt and Worth counties most of her life and retired from Riverside Manufacturing Co. in Moultrie after more than 20 years. She was a Primitive Baptist. She was preceded in death by her two husbands, Johnny Hinman and A.P. West, and by two sons, William Leroy Hinman and John Andrew Hinman. Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Lloyd and Pearl Hinman of Albany; one sister, Mary Sellers of Moultrie; 12 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and a number of great-great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Monday, Dec. 29, at Banks Funeral Home. Banks Funeral Home of Sylvester is in charge of arrangements." Odessa's maternal grandfather was Benjamin Thomas "Tom" PATE, son of Thomas & Mary Ann (HIGDON) PATE of Muscogee Co, GA. Tom's wife was Georgia Ann "Sis" SIZEMORE, daughter of James Marion & Caroline (PATE) SIZEMORE. Odessa's paternal grandmother, Celia Ann (RYALS) BLAYLOCK, m2. John Washington PATE, son of John & Martha Ann (WEATHERS) PATE of Chattahoochee Co, GA. John & Martha Ann were also the parents of Caroline (PATE) SIZEMORE. - John in TX