Garvin County Obituaries - John Franklin Blankenship

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Death Takes Area Pioneer

John Franklin "Doc" Blankenship, 81, a longtime Garvin County resident, 
died at 6:30 p.m., Thursday in the Valley Estates Nursing Home in Pauls 
Valley. He was born September 6, 1884 in Texas. He was a resident of route 
one in Pauls Valley and had lived in Garvin County the last 65 years. 
Funeral services will be at 3 p.m., Sunday in the Stufflebean Funeral 
Home Chapel. rev. Don Chambers of Paoli will officiate. Burial will be 
in the Mt. Olivett Cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Edna, one son, 
Lee Blankenship of Pauls Valley; two daughters, Mrs. K.L. Aimsworth of 
Edina, Minnesota and Mrs. Bob Tucker of Pauls Valley; one brother, Bailey 
Blankenship of Pauls Valley and five grandchildren.