Mary Lucy Blackburn

Update 8/11/2022 (CLM): https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/130932339/mary-lucy-blackburn

I wish to thank Virginia Young for her help. Lucy as she was known was a complex ,semi-private, and well educated person. Moreover, she had been married once and later divorced due to the fact the gentleman was mean. Furthermore, Lucy completed her degree and had to survive on baked beans. Also, she had another relationship but the gentleman developed cancer and returned to his ex-wife. Lucy was heart broken and took her own life. Moreover, she wanted to sit in a rocking chair and think of the lives she helped.

Warrensburg Daily Star-Journal, Oct. 24, 2001
M. Lucy Blackburn, 56, Warrensburg, died Monday, Oct. 22, 2001, at her home. She was born Oct. 19, 1945, in Hannibal, the daughter of Charles Blackburn and Marietta Tarleton Blackburn.
Ms. Blackburn received her B.S. in elementary education from Northeast Missouri State in 1956 and her master's in counseling and guidance in 1972. She received her doctorate in counseling psychology from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 1978. Other training she received was from NTL Institute in Bethel, Maine.
She taught elementary school from 1968 to 1970 at the Baumholder American Elementary School in Germany and from 1970 to 1971 in Moulton, Iowa. From 1974-1975 she was a counselor at Stephens College in Columbia.
Mrs. Blackburn came to Central Missouri in 1978 as a counseling psychologist with the rank of assistant professor. She was appointed Director of Counseling and Psychological Services in 1986 and received her psychoanalytic certification from Kansas City Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in 1997.
She was a member of the American Psychological Association, American Personnel and Guidance Association, American College Personnel Association and American Association of University Professors. She was a member of the Christ Episcopal Church in Warrensburg.
Ms. Blackburn had no surviving relatives. Close friends include Tod Raibble, Prairie Village, Kan.; Toni Burton, Liberty; Scott Baily, Bethesda, Md.; Margaret Boul, Columbia; and Judith Grieble, Kissimmee, Fla.
Cremation is planned. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m.Thursday, Oct. 25, at the Central Missouri State University Alumni Chapel. Burial will be in the Barkley Cemetery in New London at a later date.
Arrangements are under the direction of Sweeney Phillips & Holdren Funeral Home.
Memorial contributions are suggested to the CMSU Foundation in care of the funeral home or the University.