Franklin Evening Star, 2 Jan 1941
Youth, 17, Dies;
Rites Are Set
Injured In Crash
More Than Year Ago
Services will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Blankenship, 649 North Young street, for 17-year-old John Leroy Blankenship, who died Monday evening at 6:45 o'clock at the Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis.
Friends are invited to call at the residence at any time. Burial will take place in the cemetery at Greenwood. Rites will be in charge of the Rev. Richard Lentz, pastor of the local Christian church.
The young man had been ill about two weeks before his death. A boil had formed on his ear, developed into a carbuncle and affected his brain.
He had never fully recovered from a serious leg injury received in a fatal auto-train collision on North Graham street on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 22, 1939. A sophomore in the Greenwood high school at the time, he was forced to quit school and had been a semi-invalid since that time.
He was hurt badly when a south-bound Pennsylvania railroad train struck the car being driven by Sherman Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hyma Weaver of Greenwood. Donald Lee Trout, 15-year-old Indianapolis pupil, was killed. Weaver, John Blankenship and his brother, Norman, all were injured.
John Blankenship was born June 6, 1923, in Greenwood, the son of William and Elsie Crafton Blankenship. He had lived there, at University Heights, for two years, and had resided ten years in Collinsville, Madison county, Illinois, from 1926 to 1936. The family moved to Franklin last spring. His mother is seriously ill at her home here and may not be able to attend the funeral.
Surviving besides the parents are four sisters, three brothers, one niece, three nephews and the grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Crafton of Greenwood.
Brothers and sisters are Robert Blankenship of Indianapolis, Mrs. Granville Thompson of Greenwood, Norman, Norma Jean, Jeannene, Joyce Ann and Billy Blankenship, all at home.
John had many friends throughout the county and was quite popular with everyone who knew him. He attended the Greenwood Christian church, and at University Heights he served on the school patrol, in which he held an honorary membership.
Contributor: Mark E. Wirey (46919974)
Youth, 17, Dies;
Rites Are Set
Injured In Crash
More Than Year Ago
Services will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Blankenship, 649 North Young street, for 17-year-old John Leroy Blankenship, who died Monday evening at 6:45 o'clock at the Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis.
Friends are invited to call at the residence at any time. Burial will take place in the cemetery at Greenwood. Rites will be in charge of the Rev. Richard Lentz, pastor of the local Christian church.
The young man had been ill about two weeks before his death. A boil had formed on his ear, developed into a carbuncle and affected his brain.
He had never fully recovered from a serious leg injury received in a fatal auto-train collision on North Graham street on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 22, 1939. A sophomore in the Greenwood high school at the time, he was forced to quit school and had been a semi-invalid since that time.
He was hurt badly when a south-bound Pennsylvania railroad train struck the car being driven by Sherman Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hyma Weaver of Greenwood. Donald Lee Trout, 15-year-old Indianapolis pupil, was killed. Weaver, John Blankenship and his brother, Norman, all were injured.
John Blankenship was born June 6, 1923, in Greenwood, the son of William and Elsie Crafton Blankenship. He had lived there, at University Heights, for two years, and had resided ten years in Collinsville, Madison county, Illinois, from 1926 to 1936. The family moved to Franklin last spring. His mother is seriously ill at her home here and may not be able to attend the funeral.
Surviving besides the parents are four sisters, three brothers, one niece, three nephews and the grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Crafton of Greenwood.
Brothers and sisters are Robert Blankenship of Indianapolis, Mrs. Granville Thompson of Greenwood, Norman, Norma Jean, Jeannene, Joyce Ann and Billy Blankenship, all at home.
John had many friends throughout the county and was quite popular with everyone who knew him. He attended the Greenwood Christian church, and at University Heights he served on the school patrol, in which he held an honorary membership.
Contributor: Mark E. Wirey (46919974)
Franklin Evening Star, 2 Jan 1941
Youth, 17, Dies;
Rites Are Set
Injured In Crash
More Than Year Ago
Services will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Blankenship, 649 North Young street, for 17-year-old John Leroy Blankenship, who died Monday evening at 6:45 o'clock at the Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis.
Friends are invited to call at the residence at any time. Burial will take place in the cemetery at Greenwood. Rites will be in charge of the Rev. Richard Lentz, pastor of the local Christian church.
The young man had been ill about two weeks before his death. A boil had formed on his ear, developed into a carbuncle and affected his brain.
He had never fully recovered from a serious leg injury received in a fatal auto-train collision on North Graham street on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 22, 1939. A sophomore in the Greenwood high school at the time, he was forced to quit school and had been a semi-invalid since that time.
He was hurt badly when a south-bound Pennsylvania railroad train struck the car being driven by Sherman Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hyma Weaver of Greenwood. Donald Lee Trout, 15-year-old Indianapolis pupil, was killed. Weaver, John Blankenship and his brother, Norman, all were injured.
John Blankenship was born June 6, 1923, in Greenwood, the son of William and Elsie Crafton Blankenship. He had lived there, at University Heights, for two years, and had resided ten years in Collinsville, Madison county, Illinois, from 1926 to 1936. The family moved to Franklin last spring. His mother is seriously ill at her home here and may not be able to attend the funeral.
Surviving besides the parents are four sisters, three brothers, one niece, three nephews and the grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Crafton of Greenwood.
Brothers and sisters are Robert Blankenship of Indianapolis, Mrs. Granville Thompson of Greenwood, Norman, Norma Jean, Jeannene, Joyce Ann and Billy Blankenship, all at home.
John had many friends throughout the county and was quite popular with everyone who knew him. He attended the Greenwood Christian church, and at University Heights he served on the school patrol, in which he held an honorary membership.
Contributor: Mark E. Wirey (46919974)
Youth, 17, Dies;
Rites Are Set
Injured In Crash
More Than Year Ago
Services will be conducted Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Blankenship, 649 North Young street, for 17-year-old John Leroy Blankenship, who died Monday evening at 6:45 o'clock at the Robert Long hospital in Indianapolis.
Friends are invited to call at the residence at any time. Burial will take place in the cemetery at Greenwood. Rites will be in charge of the Rev. Richard Lentz, pastor of the local Christian church.
The young man had been ill about two weeks before his death. A boil had formed on his ear, developed into a carbuncle and affected his brain.
He had never fully recovered from a serious leg injury received in a fatal auto-train collision on North Graham street on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 22, 1939. A sophomore in the Greenwood high school at the time, he was forced to quit school and had been a semi-invalid since that time.
He was hurt badly when a south-bound Pennsylvania railroad train struck the car being driven by Sherman Weaver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hyma Weaver of Greenwood. Donald Lee Trout, 15-year-old Indianapolis pupil, was killed. Weaver, John Blankenship and his brother, Norman, all were injured.
John Blankenship was born June 6, 1923, in Greenwood, the son of William and Elsie Crafton Blankenship. He had lived there, at University Heights, for two years, and had resided ten years in Collinsville, Madison county, Illinois, from 1926 to 1936. The family moved to Franklin last spring. His mother is seriously ill at her home here and may not be able to attend the funeral.
Surviving besides the parents are four sisters, three brothers, one niece, three nephews and the grandmother, Mrs. Eliza Crafton of Greenwood.
Brothers and sisters are Robert Blankenship of Indianapolis, Mrs. Granville Thompson of Greenwood, Norman, Norma Jean, Jeannene, Joyce Ann and Billy Blankenship, all at home.
John had many friends throughout the county and was quite popular with everyone who knew him. He attended the Greenwood Christian church, and at University Heights he served on the school patrol, in which he held an honorary membership.
Contributor: Mark E. Wirey (46919974)
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