Bea Blalack

Graveside services for Wilma Sue (Bea) Blalack, 84, of Gilmer will be held at 2:00 PM Saturday at Rosewood Park Cemetery in Longview with David Mahan officiating under the direction of Croley Funeral Home. Mrs. Blalack died January 12, 2011, in Baytown, Texas. Her family will receive friends from 6 to 8 PM on Friday, January 14, at Croley Funeral Home in Gilmer, Texas. She was born April 26, 1926, in Upshur County to A.T. and Willie Hall Hill. She married Cliff Blalack on April 10, 1944. She was the former owner of Cliff's Grocery and Western Wear in Longview from 1964 to 1980. She moved back to Upshur County and established Cliff's Grocery in West Mountain in 1980 until she retired in 2004. Mrs. Blalack was preceded in death by her parents, 3 sisters, 8 brothers and husband Cliff Blalack. She is survived by a son, Charles Blalack of Longview, daughter and son-in-law, Donna and Paul Patterson, II, of Baytown, three grandchildren, Paul Patterson, III of Mont Belvieu, Philip and Rachel Patterson of Baytown, Ashley and Joe Torralva of Pearland, two great-grandsons Dalton Patterson of Mont Belvieu and Josh Patterson of Baytown; third great grandson, Preston Torralva will be born in April.