FAIRLEA – Mrs. Mary K. Buster Blake, 77, died Friday, Aug. 24, at her home, following a long illness. Born Dec. 19, 1912, at Blue Sulphur Springs, she was the daughter of the late Edgar L. and Daisy Rader Buster. Mrs. Blake was a member of the Alderson Presbyterian Church, was a graduate of Alderson High School, Class of 1931, and the Commercial Business School in Charlottesville, Va. She was a charter incorporator of radio station WRON in Ronceverte, and retired in 1977 as associate publisher and business manager of the Kanawha Valley Leader in Nitro. Her colorful career included being one of the original “Rosie the Riveters” in World War II and in 1942 she bucketed rivets building the B24 Bombers at the Glenn L. Martin Plant in Baltimore, Md. After the war she was secretary at the Lever Brothers before returning to West Virginia. In 1973 she was appointed a U.S. deputy marshal to ride shotgun with the marshals to transport women federal prisoners to the Federal Reformatory in Alderson. Survivors include her husband, William E. Blake, former adjutant general of West Virginia; a brother, Edgar L. Buster Sr. of South Charleston; a sister, Mrs. Charles H. Crawford of Alderson, and several nieces and nephews. Graveside services were Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Alderson Cemetery at Alderson with the Rev. David C. Harris officiating. The Lobban Funeral Home in Alderson was in charge of the arrangements.