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Note: l foods that they enjoyed. She took in several of her grandchildren when they were teenagers, even legally adopting one, Terrie.
The following are articles from the Lusk Herald, a newspaper published in Lusk, WY:
7/5/1923:
Mrs. Charles Blagg of Manhattan, Kansas has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mashek at Orin and came down to Lusk the first of the week and spent a few days with the John Fernau family.
10/11/1956:
Mrs. Charles Blagg, State President B. P. O. Does
Mrs. Charles E. Blagg, charter member of Lusk Drove No. 64, B. P. O. Does, was elected state president during sessions of the seventh annual state convention held in the auditorium of the Lusk Grade School last Friday and Saturday.
10/2/1958:
Mrs. Vernice Blagg was elected state treasurer at the B. P. O. Does state area meeting held September 19 and 20 in Worland. Mrs. Ann Melugin was appointed to the public relations committee for Grand Lodge.
7/7/1966:
Mrs. Blagg and Daughter Move To Oklahoma
Mrs. Vernice Blagg and her adopted daughter, Tresia, left Lusk Saturday to make their home in Oklahoma City. Mrs. Blagg has lived all but 10 years of her life in Wyoming, eight of those years were spent in Missouri. As a little girl, she lived with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Mashek at the ranch home which is now the Hunter Hereford Ranch, southeast of Lusk.
Mrs. Blagg attended school in Lusk through her junior year, attending school in Denver and then Laramie.
She married Charles Blagg December 21, 1919 and they were the parents of four sons ond one daughter. Mr. Blagg died last October. At this time they were living on their ranch northwest of Lusk which they owned since 1937.
Mrs. Blagg has been as officer in the Lusk chapter of the O.E.S, B. P. O., Does, The American Legion Auxillary, 8 et 40, and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxilliary. Was a state officer of the Does and State Chapeau of the 8 et 40.
She and Tresia recently returned from a three week vacation in Minnesota.
11/10/1977:
Vernice Blagg, Nampa, Idaho, and her sister Dorothy Mashek Hill, Escondido, Calif., are spending a few days in Lusk this week visiting friends and relatives. They are guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bertram.
6/8/1988:
Funeral services for Mrs. Vernice Renetta Blagg, 86, of Nampa, formerly of Lusk, were held June 6, 1988 at the Peet Mortuary Chapel. She died May 31, 1988 at a Nampa hospital. Burial followed in the Lusk Cemetery.
Mrs. Blagg was born on July 24, 1901 at Lusk to Alexander and Grace Rider Mashek. She was reared and educated in Lusk and later attended business college in Denver, CO. She married Charles Erwin Blagg on December 21, 1921 at Lusk. They ranched at Lusk until he died in 1965. In 1966 she moved to Oklahoma City, OK where she lived for 7 years. In 1972 she moved to Texas and in November of 1975, came to Nampa where she has resided since.
She is survived by four sons, Colonel Blagg, Oklahoma City, OK, Mahlon Blagg, Enid, OK, Frank Blagg, Lake Dallas, TX, and Charles Blagg, Caldwell, ID, two daughters, Mrs. Renetta Heald and Mrs. Tresia Stevens, both of Nampa, two sisters, Ms. Dorothy Hill, Lander, WY and Mrs. Irene Hirschman, Milaca, MN; 13 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, two brothers, and two sisters.
Note: Vernice (Mashek) Blagg was a very interesting person. She loved to dance and play card games. She had a very distinctive laugh. She chain smoked. She loved her family and liked to make them specia
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