MILLIE BLANCHARD

April 10, 2017

GOLDEN CITY- A graveside service was held at 10 a.m. Monday at First Christian Church IOOF Cemetery for Mildred “Millie” Elizabeth Blanchard, 92, Golden City, who died at 8:08 a.m. on Wednesday, April 5, 2017, at Good Shepherd Nursing Home in Lockwood.

Arrangements were under the direction of Pugh Funeral Home.

Survivors include her husband, Ted Blanchard, Lockwood; a daughter, Terresa June Harris and husband Clifford, Princeton, Ind.; a sister, Geneva Rogers, Lockwood; two grandchildren, James Harris and Janet Peck and husband David and eight great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Joyce Arelene (Blanchard) King; a son, Dale Ted Blanchard; a granddaughter, Melissa Jones and two brothers, Eugene and Kenneth Dalton.

Mrs. Blanchard was born Oct. 17, 1924, in Dade County, to Matha Eugene and Flossie (Funk) Dalton. She grew up in the Golden City area and was a 1943 graduate of Golden City High School. After graduation she spent time in Springfield, learning to teletype, then she worked across the country to California, with two jobs in Kansas. While in California she married Ted Wiley Blanchard on Dec. 24, 1946 in Redlands, Calif. She worked as a radio dispatcher for the county of Sacramento and after retiring the two moved back to the Golden City area in 1979. They moved to Carthage in 1996 and then in 2012 to Enid, Okla. After Mrs. Blanchard entered a nursing home in Enid in 2014, her husband decided to move her to Lamar to an area nursing home. Then in 2016 she moved to her final location in Lockwood, where her husband could stay at the same location.

She was a member of the Carthage Train Crew Shrine Ladies and also served as president. She also was a member of the First Christian Church in Golden City.