Obituaries: Della Blankenship, Sabine Parish B-452 Source: Sabine Index, Many, La., Nov 2, 1994 Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck carlrad@earthlink.net ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** Della Blankenship Funeral services for Della Blankenship, 87, were held at 2 p.m., October 29, at Progress Presbyterian Church. Officiating were Rev. Jerry Lawson, and Rev. Dale Gentry. Interment was in Progress Cemetery, under the direction of Warren Meadows Funeral Home. Mrs. Blankenship passed away on October 27, 1994, in North Toledo Nursing Home in Zwolle. Mrs. Blankenship was born to Webb and Mattie Blackwell Blankenship on September 10, 1907, in Sabine Parish, La. Survivors are three children, Edwin Dyess of Zwolle, Helen Vines of Shreveport, and Earnest Blankenship of Pleasant Hill; and five brothers, Quinton Brandon, Victor Brandon, Howard Brandon, Nathan Brandon, all of Zwolle, and Jack Brandon of Shreveport; three sisters, Eloise Nabours, and Eula Lea Nabours, both of Toledo Nursing Home, and Learh Holt of Zwolle; ten grandchildren; and nine great grandchildren.