Mae Blank

MAE HARVEY BLANK,91.DIED MONDAY EVENING,NOVEMBER10,2014 AFTER A EXTENDED ILLNESS.SHE WAS BORN NOVEMBER 3,1923 IN PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY TO CHAPMAN IRBY AND MATTIE BAKER HARVEY.A CHILD OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION,SHE WAS RAISED IN A CLOSE LOVING FAMILY WITH HER FIVE SIBLINGS WITH NEARBY AUNTS,UNCLES AND COUSINS.SHE GRADUATED FROM DARLINGTON HEIGHTS SCHOOL AND SMITHDEAL MASSEY BUSINESS SCHOOL..                                                                                                                                                                      DURING WORLD WAR 11 SHE WORKED AT THE SURGEON GENERALS OFFICE AND THE PENAGON IN WASHINGTON ,D.C.ON A VISIT TO WALTER REED HOSPITAL SHE MET WILLIAM LEONARD BLANK,A SOLDIER RECUPERATING FROM WOUNDS RECIEVED DURING THE BATTLE OF THE BULDGE.MONTHS LATER THEY WERE MARRIED.                                                                                                                                                                                   MR,BLANKS CAREER TOOK THEM TO ALEXANDRIA AND ROANOKE,BUT FOR MOST OF THIER LIFE TOGETHER,THEY MADE THEIR HOME IN RICHMOND,VA.SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS AUXILIARY AND WAS A VOLUNTEER AT MCQUIRE VETERANS HOSPITAL AND SALEM VETERANS HOSPITAL.                                                                                                                                                                                   MRS. BLANKS WAS A DEVOTED AND ADORING WIFE FOR OVER 50 YEARS.AFTER HER HUSBANDDIED IN 2003 .SHE RETURNED TO HER ROOTS IN CENTRAL VIRGINIA AND WAS A RESIDENT OF THE WOODLANDS IN FARMVILLE.IN 2012 SHE MOVED TO RALEIGH ,N.C. TO BE CLOSER TO HER DAUGHTER.                                         SHE IS SURVIVED BY A DAUGHTER,LINDA BLANK BERRY AND SON-IN LAW,TIM OF RALEIGH NC; THREE GRANDCHILDREN,ASHLEY SELLNER (ADAM) OF CHARLOTTE,NC.BROOKS BERRY(AMY) OF ZION CROSSROADS,AND WILLIAM BERRY(KAREN) OF DENVER,CO;GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN,JACK SELLNER,MAE SELLNER,NOAH BERRY;AND NIECES AND NEPHEWS,PAT STONE OF KEYSVILLE,HARVEY BRYANT OF SEVERNA PARK,MD.ANDREW BRYANT OF PARK,MD.UT AND MYRNA ROOKS OF RICHMOND.