Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blankenship, Earl D., 1969 

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EARL DEWEY BLANKENSHIP

   A funeral service for Earl D. Blankenship was conducted Sunday at 2:30 p.m. 
in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. R.E. Brittle and the Rev. 
Robert E. Davis.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were J.G. Joyner Jr., Steve Hornok, Stanley Johnson, Edgar 
Blythe, Arthur Smith, marvin Whitley, J.R. Cobb and R.H. Joyner.

   Blankenship, 65, died Friday morning in a hospital.

   A native of Russell County, N.C., he was a son of William H. and Mrs. Laura 
Fields Blankenship and the husband of Mrs. Eugene Scott Blankenship.

   He was a honorary deacon of Hunterdale Christian Church.

   Besides his wife, he is survived by two sons, Earl D. Blankenship, Jr. of 
Franklin and William H. Blankenship of Virginia Beach; a daughter, Mrs. 
Kathleen Magazu of Mickleton, N.J.; a brother, Charles C. Blankenship of 
Moncks Corner, S.C.; three sisters, Mrs. Burke Garrell of Greenville, S.C., 
Mrs. Grace Ford of Columbia, S.C. and Mrs. Jessie Dennis of Charleston, S.C.; 
and five grandchildren.


Earl Dewey BLANKENSHIP (Sr.), 
Russell Co., NC native, d. 11 Jul 1969, age 65, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 103*), Franklin, 
   13 Jul 1969, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 17, 1969, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 


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