A funeral service for Myra Elizabeth Blake, 86, was held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2025, at Strickland Funeral Home in Caldwell.
Myra was born on Oct. 31, 1939, in Houston, to Albert and Ruth Rock. She was the first born of seven children.
Myra attended Aldine High School in the graduation class of 1958.
In August of 1958, she married the love of her life, Donald Blake, and spent the next 67 years loving him and raising their five children.
She loved to travel and she traveled with a map in her hand. The Summer vacations were a long series of cross-country road trips and family camping adventures, traveling through 30 states over the years.
She was an avid bowler, bowling in the Women’s League each fall season from 1968 to 2020.
In the mid 1990s, she became fascinated with genealogy, after 20 years of travel and research, she has left a remarkable written history of her family.
She also found pure enjoyment in watching the Astros play, which is a memory that her family will cherish.
She died on Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025.
She is survived by two daughters; one son; nine grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Strickland Funeral Home. They invite you to visit their website at www. stricklandfuneralhomes. com and sign the online register book.