Margaret Ann Blanks

Life Celebration Services will be held at 3:00pm, Sunday, October 28, 2018, in the Heritage Suite of Baldwin-Lee Funeral Home in Pearl. The family will receive friends on hour prior to services.

Margaret was born May 15, 1942, in Holly Bluff, Mississippi, a daughter of the late Charles Thomas Pugh and Flora Mae Dozier Pugh. Following college to be a nursing assistant, she enjoyed a lengthy career with a nursing home in Collinsville, Texas.

In addition to her parents, Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, O.C. Blanks.

Survivors include sons, Michael Mathews and wife Bernadette, Clifford Mathews and wife Lori Lynn, and Jeffery Mathews and wife Monica; brothers, Gene Pugh and John L. Pugh; sisters, Bobbie Screws and Geraldine Wells; grandchildren, Kristine Mathews, Breanna Mathews, Carmen Mathews Shinn, Trevor Anderson, Alison Anderson, Tabitha Mathews Adams, Amanda Mathews Salzman, Cole Mathews, Williams Mathews, Kennedy Mathews, Trent Eldridge, and Craig Howze; and 16 great-grandchildren.