Funeral services for Alvin [Doc] Blanton, 53, of Lucasville Rt 3, are to be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Miller's Run Methodist Church.
Mr. Blanton, an auto mechanic for Portsmouth Mixed Concrete the last 20 years, died at 6;45 a.m. Thursday at University Hospital in Columbus, where he had been a patient since last Saturday. He had been in ill health since he suffered a heart attack in Jan, 1959.
Born Sept. 22, 1907, in Rowan Co., KY, he was a son of Hiram and Ethel Hall Blanton.
Mr. Blanton was married Gladys Widdig July 30, 1934, in Lucasville, and Mrs. Blanton survives.
Also surviving are three sons, Harold of Lucasville Rt. 3, Charles of Lucasville Rt. 2 and James of Tampa, Fla., brother, Sherman Blanton of 29th St.; half-brother, Fielden Buckner of Lucasville Rt. 1; half sister, Linda Entler of Mansfield, OH; three step-sisters, Mrs Franklin Chestnut and Miss Grace Moore of Lucasville Rt. 3, and Mrs. Ethel Jordan of Lucasville, and the stepmother, Martha Blanton of Lucasville Rt. 3.
Mr. Blanton was preceded in death by his parents.
He was a member of Miller's Run Methodist Church. Rev. Julius Chandler is to officiate at services. Interment is to be in Lucasville Cemetery under direction of McKinley Funeral Home. Friends may call at the Blanton residence on Lucasville Rt. 3 after 6 tonight.