People named Wilda Blankinship

MRS. WILDA E. BLANKINSHIP - Submitted by FofFG - A.W. SEDAN - Wilda Elizabeth (Capps) Blankinship, 74, of Sedan, died Monday at Pleasant Valley Manor in Sedan. Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at the First Christian Church, with the Rev. Bob Williams officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery. Friends may call from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m today and Thursday and 8 am to 8 p.m. Friday at Graves Funeral Home of Caney and from 9 am to 9:45 am. Saturday at the First Christian Church of Sedan. Memorials are suggested to the First Christian Church Scholarship Fund or the Pleasant Valley Manor and may be left at the funeral home. Mrs. Blankinship was born on April 7, 1921, in Peru to Newt and Margaret (Gallagher) Capps. Her family moved to Sedan when she was a teenager. She graduated from Sedan High School in 1938. She was a nurse aide and medication aide, working for Capps Nursing Home for 30 years and Pleasant Valley Manor for 18 years. She was a member of the First Christian Church for 50 years, the Business and Professional Women organization, Rebekah Lodge, Christian Church Choir and Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. She married Allen Richard Blankinship in 1939. He died in 1942. She is survived by two sons, Allen R Blankinship Jr. and William Blankinship, both of Sedan; two brothers, Warren E. Capps, Texas, and Howard W. Capps, Phoenix, Ariz.; one sister, Irene Utt, Grove, Okla.; seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Sedan Times-Star - March 14, 2001

Wilda E Blankinship of Sedan, Chautauqua County, KS was born on April 7, 1921, and died at age 74 years old on November 27, 1995.