Richard A. Blair M.D. age 72 years of 150 Garden Lane, Columbia, KY passed away Thursday, November 16, 2006 at the Greenview Regional Hospital in Bowling

Green, Kentucky after a long illness.

He was the son of the late: Dr. Earl & Nellie Walling Blair of Adair County, KY

Dr. Blair practiced Obstetrics and Gynecology for five years in Paducah, Kentucky and five years in Louisville, KY and later practiced Psychiatric medicine for 10 years as Director of Psychiatric Services at Westlake Regional Hospital in Columbia, KY

Dr. Blair was the Chairman of the Gynecology residency training program at the University of Tennessee at Memphis School of Medicine, he was a faculty member

of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Department at the University of Louisville College of Medicine and the University of Arkansas, he was a member of the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Columbia, KY and attained the rank of Captain in the US Army.

Survivors include his wife of 51 years: Delwin Kellerman Blair of Columbia, KY

One son: Lt. Col. Richard Earl Blair a flight surgeon with the US Air Force currently stationed in South Korea

Three daughters: Rebecca Blair O'Brien of Birmingham, Alabama

Delwin Jacoby of Lawrenceburg, KY

Nancy Blair of Palm Springs, California

One brother: Charles Blair MD of Louisville, KY

One sister: Diana Elmore of Glasgow, KY

12 grandchildren survive, as well as several local cousins including James C. Blair

of Columbia, KY and Bill Blair of Birmingham, Alabama

A memorial service will be held on: Tuesday, November 21, 2006 at 10:00 AM at

Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home

Clergy officiating: Father Dan Lincoln

The family has chosen cremation with interment of the cremains in the Columbia Cemetery

The family request visitation from 5:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. on Monday at Stotts-

Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to Lindsey Wilson College Scholarship

Fund 210 Lindsey Wilson Street, Columbia, KY 42728

Visitation : Monday Nov. 20 2006 5:00 PM until 8:00 PM

Services : TUESDAY Nov. 21 2006 10:00 A.M. Stotts-Phelps-McQueary Funeral Home

Interment : Columbia CemeteryN