Graveside services will be 10 am Friday at Crestwood Cemetery for Mr. Olin Perry Blackwell age 98 of Gadsden who died Monday. Reverend Don Gober will officiate. Crestwood Funeral Home announcing.

Mr. Blackwell was a WW II Veteran having served in The United States Army and The Air Corps. He retired from Cain Blue and Combs Gadsden and Anniston. He was an avid sports fan, especially football and baseball, loved to play golf and did so until the age of 94.

He is preceded in death by wife Mildred Collins Blackwell who passed in 1998.

He is survived by daughters Teresa (Gary Herbert) Sartain, Lesa(David Walter) Cummings, grandchildren Jeremy(Monica) Sartain, Andrew Sartain, Bryn(Kristin)Sartain, Lori Cummings, Craig(Leigh) Cummings, Greatgrandchildren Joshua Thomas Sartain, Samantha Anne Sartain, Vivien Lee Cummings and Walter Thomas Cummings.

Pallbearers will be Gary Sartain, Jeremy Sartain, Andrew Sartain, Bryn Sartain, David Cummings, Craig Cummings and Joshua Sartain.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to your favorite charity.

Special thanks to Autumn Cove Assisted Living and Kindred Hospice.

We will be celebrating Dad's love of sports so casual dress is suggested.