Fulton Leader - Dec.2, 2003 



  Diane Blevins, a resident of Dukedom, died on Nov. 24 at Parkway
Regional Hospital. She was 49.
   Services were on Nov. 29 at Jackson Funeral Home in Dukedom,
with the Rev. Rick Walker officiating. Burial was in Acree 
Cemetery. 
   Survivors include her husband, Earl ‘Hoppy’ Brozell; her father,
Richard Cockrell of Chicago; a daughter, Joanna R. Blevins of
Hanover Park, Ill.; a son, Michael E. Clemans of Carol Stream, Ill.;
two sisters, Rose Marie Blevins and Donna Fuzzell, both of
Dukedom; a brother, Jerry Cherry, also of Dukedom; and three
grandchildren. 
   She was preceded in death by her mother, Wanda Ruth Cockrell.
Born on May 5, 1954, in Dallas, Texas, she was a member of New
Salem Baptist Church and had moved to the area in 1995 from
Chicago.