John Blake visitation to be held at Ed Dubie Field House

Charles Page High School alumni and former University of Oklahoma Head Football Coach John Blake, 59, died July 23rd from a heart attack. There will be three visitations for the Sandite and Sooner before he is interred at Green Acres Memorial Gardens in Skiatook.

Friendship West Baptist Church at 2020 West Wheatland Road in Dallas will be hosting a visitation from 10:30 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. Saturday, August 8th followed by a Celebratory Service from 12:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.

A second visitation will be held at the Ed Dubie Field House at 600 North Adams Road in Sand Springs. That event will be Sunday, August 9th from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

On Monday, August 10th a third visitation will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. at Keith D. Biglow Funeral Directors, Inc. at 1414 North Norfolk venue in Tulsa. Finally, a graveside service will be held Monday at Green Acres Memorial Gardens at 12410 North Yale Avenue in Skiatook.

Blake graduated from Charles Page High School in 1979 where he was a four-year letterman at fullback and nose guard. He was an All-Conference, All-Metro, and All-State selection his junior and senior years, and was the Most Valuable Player in the 1979 All-State game.

He was a three-year letterman at nose guard for the University of Oklahoma and was twice named Big 8 Defensive Player of the Week. He also made the All-Big 8 Second Team. He graduated in 1983 with a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences degree and remained at OU as a graduate assistant until 1987.

Blake was an assistant coach at the University of Tulsa, the University of Oklahoma, and for the Dallas Cowboys, helping Dallas win two Super Bowls before returning to Oklahoma as Head Coach for three seasons. He was inducted into the Sand Springs Education Association Hall of Fame in 1996. He also coached for Mississippi State, Nebraska, North Carolina, and the Buffalo Bills before retiring in 2016.

The coach leaves behind his wife Freda, his son Jourdan, his mother Dorothy, and five siblings.