MANDY BLYZES

EAST PRAIRIE, Mo. -- Mandy Hammontree Blyzes, 73, of Friedheim, Mo., and formerly of East Prairie, Mo., died Saturday, Feb. 3, 2001, at Perry County Memorial Hospital in Perryville, Mo.

She was born Nov. 27, 1927, in Birmingham, Ala., daughter of William and Ida Bell Simpson Hammontree. She and Thurman Edward Blyzes were married, and he died April 30, 1990.

Blyzes lived in Friedheim since 1965, where she and her husband engaged in farming. She was Baptist.

Survivors include three sons, Orville Blyzes and William Blyzes, both of Friedheim, and Thurman Blyzes of Chaffee, Mo.; a daughter, Mary Wright of Perryville; a brother, George Hammontree of Blythe, Calif.; two sisters, Celia Flinkman of Auburn, Wash., and Katherine Loflin of East Prairie; 10 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a great-grandchild, three brothers and a sister.

Friends may call after 5 p.m. today at Shelby Funeral Home in East Prairie.

Funeral will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Shelby Chapel. David Dowdy will officiate, with burial in Dogwood Cemetery.