MARY L. BLACKNALL


FRANKLINTON - Mary Dorothy Laws Blacknall, 82, died Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013. Funeral services were held Sunday, Sept. 15, at Kinches Chapel Christian Church, Franklinton, with the Rev. Willie R. Nixon III officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery.

She was born to the late Mollie Harris and Vannie Preddy of Franklinton. She received her education at Kinches Chapel School. She served as an usher, missionary, member of the Senior Choir and Pastor’s Aide ministry at Kinche’s Chapel.

She was preceded in death by one daughter, Louise Hunter, and a son, Edward Blacknall.

Surviving: husband, Sherney Blacknall of the home; sons, William Blacknall (Annie Mae), Haywood Blacknall, Angelo Blacknall, Marvin Blacknall (Annette), all of Creedmoor, Robert Blacknall (Tonyia) of Durham; daughters, Mary Dean Blacknall of Butner and Diane Eberhart (Harold) of Brunswick, Ga.; 15 grandchildren; and a host of great-grandchildren.

Arrangements by Cutchins Funeral Home, Franklinton.