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1863 - 2002



Blankenship, Dorotha

Dorotha Blankenship, 73, died Aug. 28, 2002, at Chase County Health and Rehabilitation Center, Cottonwood Falls.

A Celebration of Her Life was Aug. 31, 2002, at the Brown- Bennett-Alexander Funeral Home in Cottonwood Falls. Pastors Roland Craig and Dwight Craig officiated. A pri- vate inurnment is to be held at a later date.

Dorotha Lea Beedle, the daughter of Ray and Grace Norton Beedle, was born Sept. 28, 1928, at Bazaar. She mar- ried Jerry Jay Blankenship on June 20, 1949, at Bazaar. He died in 1970.

She was a rancher and member of the American Quarter Horse Association and the Kansas Quarter Horse Association. She was one of the first Emergency Medical Technicians in Chase County and went with them on ambu- lance runs. She was a Kansas charter member of the Girls Professional Rodeo Association, worked with the Dodge City Rodeo Days Association and volunteered with the Flint Hills Rodeo Association. She was, also, a member of Falls Chapter #25 of the Order of Eastern Star.

She is survived by one daughter, Leigh Ann Crofoot of rural Matfield Green; two sons, Jay Blankenship of Hutchinson and Flint Blankenship of Topeka; and four grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her par- ents and four sisters, Beverly Grace Beedle, Virginia Norton Beedle, Helen Evens and Betty Koger.

Memorials are suggested to Chase County Emergency Medical Service and may be sent in care of the funeral home at 201 Cherry, Cottonwood Falls.

Chase County Leader-News, Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, Sept 5, 2002





Chase County Death Notices and Obituaries,
compiled and abstracted from the Chase County Courant and Chase County Leader Newspapers
by your Chase County Host, Lorna Marvin.
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