Obituaries:  Billy Joe Blankenship, Sabine Parish       B-452
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Jul 5, 1973
Submitted by: Ruth Estess
              r.estess@worldnet.att.net


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The Sabine Index - Billy Joe Blankenship

  July 5, 1973

  Funeral services were held for Billy Joe Blankenship, 36, of
Zwolle, July 2 at the Springridge Baptist Church at 2 p.m.

  Officiating at the service was the Rev. Frank Chance. Burial was
in the Sardis Cemetery.

  Mr. Blankenship died Saturday June 30, the result of an accident
on an offshore drilling rig out from Lafayette.

  Survivors include his widow; two sons, Billy Joe Jr. and Andy
Blankenship of Pelican; three step-sons, George W., Edwin and
James Terry Britt all of Zwolle; five step-daughters, Mrs. Sally
Mae Logan of Lafayette, Mrs. Helen Louise Castie of Shreveport;
Mrs. Viola Sepulvado of Zwolle, Willie Jean and Mary Jo Britt
both of Zwolle; his mother, Mrs. Mageline Craig of Pleasant Hill;
one brother Bobby L. Blankenship of Shreveport; two half
brothers, Tommy Neal of Coushatta and John Franklin Neal of
Pleasant Hill; and one sister, Mrs. Mary Lightfoot of Hornbeck.