Jesse Price Blalock Sr.

LCDR Jesse P. Blalock, USN (Ret.) passed away on December 27, 2011 at his home in Kingwood, Texas two weeks after turning 90. Jesse was born on Dec 9, 1921 to Annie Laurie Price Blalock and Jesse Hensley Blalock in Marshall, Texas. He received his B.S. in chemistry from Southwestern University in 1943 and his M.S. from Georgetown University in Washington, DC in 1964. He enlisted in the United States Navy in 1941 and during WWII served on USS Ernst in the South Pacific. He was commissioned as an Officer in the Navy in 1965.

LCDR Blalock served 28 years in the Navy as an Aerospace Physiologist, teaching, training pilots and running the hyperbaric and hypobaric pressure chambers. His accomplishments include developing new snake bite protocol for pilot crash kits, training the Blue Angels and future Astronauts in Pensacola, Fla. in the late 50's, and managing the centrifuge and working in mission control during the Apollo Space Missions at NASA in the late 60's. He retired in Quonset Point, Rhode Island in 1971.

From 1971-’78 he was Chemist/Toxicologist for the Houston DPS Crime Lab. and from ’78-’95 served as Breath Alcohol Technical Supervisor for Harris, Brazos and Galveston Counties.

Jesse was an active member of the First United Methodist church of Houston and past President and active member in the Houston Intercontinental Kiwanis Club for over 20 years. He was also a proud Charter Member of the Houston Downtown YMCA, and avid “health nut”, gardener and fisherman extraordinaire.

There will be a public Memorial Service on January 8th, directly after church at 12:30 in the chapel at the First Methodist Church in downtown Houston. He will be buried in a family service in Marshall, Texas.

Mr. Blalock is survived by his 6 children: Laurie Blalock Bell and her husband Calvin Clay Boykin III, Jesse Price Blalock, Jr. and his wife Lynn Mayfield Blalock, William Blalock, Brian Blalock, Johnny Blalock, and Virginia Blalock Gibbs and her husband John Gibbs. 8 Grandchildren include: R. Price Blalock, Lauren Blalock, William Blalock, Cary Bell, Emily Bell, Kelly Blalock, Ashley Blalock and Maggie Gibbs.

In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Kiwanis Club of Kingwood at www.kingwoodkiwanis.org.