Leslie Earl BLANKENSHIP

BLANKENSHIP, HURD, FANSLER, MERONEK, BURKETT, RAGSDALE, BILLS, BODDE, BEHRENS, PEDERSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 1/29/2010 at 16:30:19

December 4, 1911 - March 6, 2002

HAMPTON, Iowa -Leslie Earl Blankenship, 90, of Hampton, died Wednesday, March 6, 2002, at the Hampton Care Center in Hampton. Services will be held Saturday, March 9 at 10 a.m. at the Sietsema-Vogel Funeral Home in Hampton with burial in the Hampton Cemetery. Rev. Jerry Miller will officiate.

Leslie was born Dec. 4, 1911, in Vera, Ill. to Dave and Lily Fansler Blankenship. He was educated in country schools near Williams and on June 4, 1934, he married Geraldine Hurd in Webster City. They farmed until 1963, when he took up trucking. He was a member of the Hampton United Methodist Church. His hobbies were horseshoes, "500" cards, and watching birds and squirrels. He enjoyed the simple things in life.

He is survived by his wife of 67 years, Geraldine, of Hampton; a daughter, Laurene Meronek of Milwaukee, Wis.; three sisters, Bernice Burkett of Dumont, Mae Ragsdale and husband, Lawrence, of Hampton, and Myrna Bills of Mason City; six grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Erma Bodde, Velma Behrens and Jean Pederson; and two sons, Robert and Donald.

Iowa Falls Times-Citizen - Iowa
7 March 2002