Funeral services for Lease Blackshire, 73, of Jacksonville and formerly of Alto will be Saturday, May 16, at 1 PM at the Weeping Mary Baptist church near Alto. Burial will follow at the St. Thomas Chapel Cemetery. Lease passed away May 6, 2026 in Jacksonville, Texas. Lease was born in Alto, February 27, 1953 to Forrest Blackshire and Katherine Ross Blackshire. Lease was Baptist and had worked at Lufkin Foundries. He had attended school in Alto and had lived in Jacksonville for the last several years. Lease was preceded in death by his parents, 6 brothers L.B., A.W., Larry, Elglory, Forrest and J.R. Blackshire and 4 sisters Addie Mae, Mary Lee, Mary Francis and Ollie Mae. He is survived by brother Vernon Lee Blackshire and sisters Katherine Willis and Mary  Ann Albro.