Obituaries:  Kirby Smith Blankenship, Sabine, Natchitoches Parish       B-452
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 27, 1991
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Kirby Smith Blankenship

  Services for Mr. Kirby Smith Blankenship, 94, of Pleasant Hill,
were held at 1 p.m., Monday, February 25, at the Spring Ridge
Baptist Church, with Rev. Charles Duncan officiating. Burial
followed at Beulah Cemetery near Marthaville, under the direction
of Rose-Neath's Mansfield Chapel.

  Mr. Blankenship died Saturday, February 23, at his residence,
following a lengthy illness. He was born in Pleasant Hill, where
he resided all of his life. He was a farmer, and pipe fitter, and
was a member of the Progress Presbyterian Church, and the
American Legion Post No. 300, in Pleasant Hill. He was a Mason.

  He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Norma Jean Brown of
Shreveport, Mrs. Mary Ellen Cook of Pleasant Hill; one brother,
Clyde Blankenship of Pleasant Hill; one grandchild; and one great
grandchild.

  Pallbearers were Hammond Blankenship, Ted Blankenship, Coy
Blankenship, Guffie Patterson, Edmond James, and L. A. Brown.