Sarah Bleckley

Sarah Frances Bleckley 85, Monroe, NC


Sarah Frances Bleckley Fisk, 85, of Monroe, NC, and of Rabun Gap, GA, died Monday, May 14, 2012 at her mother’s home in the Betty’s Creek Community following a brief illness.
Born September 22, 1926 in Wetumpka, Alabama she had spent most of her life in Silver Spring, MD and had lived in Anchorage, Alaska, Savannah, GA, Clewiston, FL and Los Angeles. CA. She was a daughter of the late Jasper Hoten, Sr and Icie Darnell Bleckley, and a grand daughter of the late Albert Asbury and Sarah Hopper Darnell and the late Joseph Frank and Josie Beck Bleckley. She was a graduate of Rabun Gap Nacoochee School and a graduate of Rabun Gap Nacoochee Junior College where she received her teaching degree. She was an Executive Administrative Assistant for the U.S. Government with the Department of the Army and Department of Agriculture and had received numerous distinguished awards from both departments while living in California. She was a member of the Marvin Memorial Methodist Church in Silver Spring, MD where she served as a Children’s Sunday School Teacher, a Volunteer for the National Kidney Foundation, and a Den Mother for the Cub Scouts as well a Brownie Leader. She was honored to have lived in the Washington, DC area and participated in many political functions including those in the White House and various Embassy’s.
, She was preceded in death by brothers, Jim Ed, Jack, and Jasper “Junior” Bleckley; sisters, Margaret Ann “Peggy” Williams, Viola P. Bleckley and Martha Sue Bleckley. She was the last member of her immediate family.
Survivors include a son, Jeffrey Wayne Fisk of Monroe, NC; two daughters and sons-in-law, Sarah Diane Pate and her husband David and Katherine Frances Lee and her husband Jeffrey all of Loganville, GA; one sister-in-law, Charlene Bleckley- Phillips of Winston Salem, NC; a brother-in-law, Walter N. Williams of Madison, FL; three grand children, Brandon Bleckley Stewart, Sarah Darnell Blackwelder, Logan Davis Darnell Pate; one step grand daughter, Jessica Suzanne Lee and one great grand child, Weston William Stone. Several loving nieces, nephews and cousins and her best friend, Mickey Fisk of Woodbridge, VA also survive.
Funeral services will be at 2 PM, Sunday, May 20, 2012 at the Betty’s Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Ronia Hunter and Layman Lloyd Hunter officiating. Burial will follow in the Betty’s Creek Cemetery in the Bleckley family plot.
The body is at Hunter Funeral home where the family will receive friends from 6 PM until 8 PM Saturday, May 19, 2012, and will be placed in the church at 1 PM on Sunday, May 20, 2012 to lie in state until the funeral hour.
The following gentlemen will serve as pallbearers and are ask to assemble at the Betty’s Creek Baptist Church at 12:40 PM on Sunday, Brandon Stewart, Jeffrey Lee, David Pate, Logan Pate, Bryan Williams, Chris Williams, Jeffrey Fisk, and Kevin Bleckley
In lieu of flowers the family asks that memorials be made to Gideons International, P.O. Box 241, Clayton, GA 30525, or the American Kidney Foundation Inc., 30 East 33 rd Street, New York, NY 10016.
The family is at the family home place in the Betty’s Creek Community Rabun Gap.
Hunter Funeral Home of Clayton GA. is in charge of arrangements.
An on-line obituary and register is available at www.hunterfuneralhomega.com.