Memorial services for Josie Aline Cotten Blackwell, of FortWalton Beach, Fla., are planned for 11 a.m. Tuesday, July 12 atPort Hudson Military Cemetery in Louisiana, where her husband,Henry H. Blackwell is buried.

Mrs. Blackwell, 83, died June 23, 2005, at Fort Walton BeachMedical Center following a lengthy illness. She was born in McCombon May 2, 1922, to Thomas Bluit Cotten and Lonie Lofton Cotten.

She was a nurse and had lived and worked for many years in NewOrleans. After retiring, she moved to Fort Walton Beach to be nearher daughter, Jackie.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband; herbrothers, Clyde, Roy, Julius, Aubrey, Willie Ray, James, Ralph andClifton; and her sisters, Mazie and Grace.

Survivors are her four daughters, Jacaline Fleming, of FortWalton Beach, Elizabeth Ann Griffin, of Slidel, Nancy Susan BourGeois, of Terrytown, La., and Henrietta Corley, of Shreveport; hersister, Reba Cotten Smith, of Brookhaven; eight grandchildren; andone great-grandchild.