Lucille Blackorby was born in 1930, in Manitoba, Canada. She married Lyle Leslie McGinnis on 12 June 1947, in Hawthorne, Mineral, Nevada, United States. She died in 2015, in Medford, Jackson, Oregon, United States, at the age of 85, and was buried in Oregon, United States.
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English: habitational name from Blackfordby (Leicestershire), recorded as Blakerby in 1517.
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