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<\/a><\/p>\nEmbedded in this post is a youtube link to my father\u2019s funeral.\u00a0 This is something I would want everyone studying the Latter-day Saint faith to listen to as an example of what a Mormon life is or can be.<\/p>\n
My father, Robert W. Blair, was born Mormon, but was planted deep into his faith through associations with many religions and cultures.\u00a0 His earliest experience of devotion happened after he viewed the Catholic film Bernadette,\u00a0<\/em>and, on his way home from the theater, knelt in prayer to dedicate his life to God.\u00a0 He deepened his faith by private commitments to God to never swear or drink. In 1950, he served a three-year mission for the LDS Church<\/a> to Finland.\u00a0 In time, he joined with Evangelical friends to smuggle Bibles into China, and to send short wave radio Bible stories to the USSR.\u00a0 In 1994, he presided over the Baltic States Mission with my mother, Julia Gay Groberg Blair.\u00a0 His specialty was Mayan dialects, though by the end of his life he had worked in Chinese, Russian, and the Baltic languages, and had become a brother of many men and women in multiple cultures..<\/p>\n I have edited out prayers and the bishop\u2019s talk (though it was a good talk), so that you hear only his children and the music we, his family, sang or joined in.<\/p>\n The speakers are: Benjamin Wallace Blair<\/p>\n James Groberg Blair<\/p>\n Elizabeth (Lisa) Sabey<\/p>\n Jenette Blair Lambert<\/p>\n Robert Groberg Blair<\/p>\n Margaret Blair Young (oldest)<\/p>\n Delbert Wallace Blair<\/p>\n Vocal solo \u201cAmazing Grace\u201d performed by my daughter, Kaila Lifferth, accompanied by her cousins, Kristen, Sophie and Amber Blair<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n
\nCarol Blair Madsen<\/p>\n