Atkinson-Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Griner-Blanton, Mary Ruth Hodges October 17, 2010 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Shirley McMillan Durden http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006039 April 8, 2017, 6:05 pm The Berrien Press - October 27, 2010 Mary Ruth Griner-Blanton, 92, of Nashville died Sunday, Oct. 17, 2010 at Berrien County Hospital. Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at Lovein Funeral Home with the Rev. Mickey Lindsey officiating. Burial will fo follow at Westview Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 7 to 9 tonight at the fu funeral home. Pallbearers were Jim Underwood, Rusty Griner, Bobby Tuttle, Michael James, K Keith Purvis, John Stanley. Honorary pallbearers were Glenn Hodges, Don Williams, John Thomas Kent, Joe Allen Kent, Bill Kent, James Griner, Carlton Hodges, Tate Hodges, Danny Hodges, B Bobby Gaskins. Mrs. Griner-Blanton was born Sept. 11, 1918, in Berrien County to the late C Clifford Alva Hodges and Perlie Lott. She was a homemaker and was retired with N Nashville Mills as a quality control clerk. She was a member of Riverside M Missionary Baptist Church. She was the widow of J.E. Clayton Griner, who died i in 1979; and Lemmie Austin Blanton, who died in 2002. She was also preceded in d death by her sons, Jimmy Griner, Jackie Griner and Renna Griner. Mrs. Griner-Blanton is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Jerry L. “Jocko” and Rhonda Griner of Nashville; two sisters, Sheila Gaskins of Willacoochee and Sue Ennes of Atlanta; 11 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Lovein Funeral Home in Nashville is in charge of arrangements. grandchildren. Lovein Funeral Home in Nashville is in charge of arrangements. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/atkinson/obits/g/grinerbl4773nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.1 Kb