May 28, 2003

Frances Blankenship

Frances Wallace Blankenship, 80, of Savannah, Ga., died Monday, May 26, 2003, at Memorial Health University Medical Center. She was born Nov. 2, 1922, in Newberry, S.C. She married Dale Minton Blankenship. Blankenship was a graduate of Coker College. She moved to Savannah in 1988 from Cape Girardeau...

Frances Wallace Blankenship, 80, of Savannah, Ga., died Monday, May 26, 2003, at Memorial Health University Medical Center.

She was born Nov. 2, 1922, in Newberry, S.C. She married Dale Minton Blankenship.

Blankenship was a graduate of Coker College. She moved to Savannah in 1988 from Cape Girardeau.

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She was an elder in the Presbyterian Church and was a member of Skidaway Island United Methodist Church and a member of Chapter AS of P.E.O. Sisterhood.

Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Sally Blankenship of Cape Girardeau, Beth Younce of Concord, N.C.; a brother, Cam Wallace; and five grandchildren.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Skidaway Island United Methodist Church.

Fox and Weeks Hodgson Chapel in Savannah is in charge of arrangements.

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