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Wilma Blanks

February 5, 1935 — November 3, 2001

WILMA GENE BLANKS OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI WAS BORN AT AFTON, MISSOURI ON FEBRUARY 5, 1935. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF THE LATE WILLIAM AND GENEVIEVE (STATHAM) COATS. WILMA DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT HER RESIDENCE IN IRONDALE, MISSOURI ON NOVEMBER 3, 2001 HAVING REACHED THE AGE OF SIXTY-SIX YEARS, EIGHT MONTHS AND TWENTY-NINE DAYS.
SHE IS SURVIVED BY ONE DAUGHTER, ALETHA JENEAN GRIFFIN AND HUSBAND KENNY OF ALMA, ARKANSAS; SEVEN SONS, HAROLD DEAN LANDHERR AND WIFE MARIETTA OF MULDROW, OKLAHOMA, RANDALL FRANKLIN LANDHERR OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI, KENNETH LEE LANDHERR AND WIFE KIM OF MULDROW, OKLAHOMA, DANIEL FREDERICK LANDHERR AND WIFE TALINA OF WOODLAND, CALIFORNIA, JIMMY EARL LANDHERR AND WIFE KAREN OF BANGLADESH, BENJAMIN DAVID BLANKS JR. AND FIANCÉ TINA DONZE OF FLORISSANT, MISSOURI, AND JONATHAN TRACK JONES AND FIANCÉ REGINA CROCKER OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI. SHE IS ALSO SURVIVED BY TWELVE GRANDCHILDREN AND ONE GREAT GRANDCHILD; ONE BROTHER, BOB COATS OF DONIPHAN, MISSOURI; THREE SISTERS, ELSIE D. PYATT OF GROVE SPRINGS, MISSOURI, LORETTA STEVENS OF DONIPHAN, MISSOURI AND SONIA JOY FRAZER AND HUSBAND ALLEN OF IRONDALE, MISSOURI. IN ADDITION TO HER PARENTS SHE WAS ALSO PRECEDED IN DEATH BY ONE DAUGHTER DEBRA JEAN LANDHERR.
WILMA HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR HER LORD AND SAVIOR AND ENJOYED READING HIS TEACHINGS AND ALWAYS FOUND TIME TO PRAY. SHE ENJOYED GARDENING, CAMPING, SWIMMING AND THE MANY OTHER GIFTS OF MOTHER NATURE. SHE LOVED COLLECTING STAMPS AND MAKING QUILTS.
SHE HAD A GREAT LOVE FOR HER FAMILY ESPECIALLY HER GRANDCHILDREN. EACH OF THEM HELD A VERY DEAR PLACE IN HER HEART.
VISITATION WAS HELD AT 5:30 TO 9:00 ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2001 AT THE MOORE FUNERAL HOME IN POTOSI.
FUNERAL SERVICES WAS CONDUCTED AT 11:00 ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2001 AT RIVER OF LIFE CHURCH WITH REV. RONNIE DEAN MCRAVEN OFFICIATING. BURIAL WAS IN THE SUNSET HILL CEMETERY UNDER THE DIRECTION OF MOORE FUNERAL HOME, POTOSI.
SERVING AS PALLBEARERS WERE, DEAN LANDHERR, RANDY LANDHERR, DAN LANDHERR, KEN LANDHERR, DAVID BLANKS, JON JONES, JIMMY LANDHERR AND ALETHA GRIFFIN.
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