Helen Blankenship Sanders

December 8, 2010
Funeral for Helen Blankenship Sanders, 69, of Blountsville was Sat., Dec. 11, at 11 a.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jerry Ridling officiating.
Burial was in New Friendship Cemetery.
Mrs. Sanders died Wed., Dec. 8, 2010, at St. Vincents Blount. She was born Oct. 23, 1941, in Blount County to Parish Blankenship and Lola Mae Lott Blankenship. She was preceded in death by two sons, William Sanders and Dennis Sanders and four sisters, Gean Kritner, Lee Ransom,  Joyce Lyle and Jeanette Blankenship.
She is survived by a son, Nick Mester; two daughters, Lola Carroll and Brenda Sanders; a sister, Margaret Mitchell; 12 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Nick Mester, Manny Guzman, Punchy Stover, Jeff Cornelius, Frank Dean and Jason Ogles.