Emma Lucille Burris Blake, age 81, of 2166 Woodcroft Lane, Albemarle, NC, passed away on Sunday, August 29th, 2010 at Stanly Regional Medical Center in Albemarle, NC.  Her family will receive friends on Monday evening from 6 PM to 8 PM at Stanly Funeral Home and her funeral will be at 2 PM on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 at Anderson Grove Baptist Church in Albemarle, NC.  Rev. Yates Brooks, Rev. Ron Honeycutt, and Rev. Gary McNeil will officiate and burial will be in Blackwood Chapel Baptist Church Cemetery in Pekin, NC.  

Born April 7th, 1929 to the late Arnold and Roxie Lucille Carter Burris, Mrs. Blake was educated in the Stanly County Schools and was a homemaker.  She was a member of Anderson Grove Baptist Church.  She is survived by her husband, Alfred Bryant Blake; three sons: Andrew Blake and wife Barbara of Norwood, NC, Bernie Blake and wife Anna of Troy, NC, and Craig Blake and wife Debbie of Albemarle, NC; two daughters: Dianne Loflin and husband Joe of New London, NC and "Mary" Francis Finley and special friend Charles Lowder of Albemarle, NC; eleven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and one great-grandchild on the way.