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Roy Glenn Blanton

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Sherman Democrat, April 13, 1989, p. 14
 ROY GLENN BLANTON - Whitewright - Funeral for Roy Glenn Blanton, 89, of
Whitewright, who died Tuesday in a Denison hospital, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Earnheart
Chapel, with the Rev. Rodney Stanford officiating.  Burial will be in Oakhill Cemetery. //
Blanton was born July 14, 1899, in Indian Territory, Ardmore, Okla, son of Charles
Samuel Blanton and Priscilla Virginia Cowan.  He married Gladine Gates June 26, 1932 in
Kingston, Okla.  Blanton, a World War I veteran, was a retired rural mail carrier and a
First National Bank of Whitewright employee.  He attended Whitewright schools and
Austin College.  // Surviving are his wife; son, James Barrie Blanton of Whitewright, two
daughters, Shirley Glyn Mitroff of Tarentum, Pa, Priscilla Ann Williams of Lewisville;
brother, Earl of Whitewright; 12 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
The family will be at the funeral home from 7 to 8 tonight.  (Researcher’s note:  Roy was
the grandson of Benjamin F. “Frank” Blanton and  Julia Ann Blanton.)