1941 - 2022

Freddie Lavelle Blankenship of Alexander City died at his home on March 23, 2022.  He was born on August 8, 1941 in Alexander City, the youngest child of Rufus Lavelle Blankenship and Bernice Whitman Blankenship.  Freddie grew up in Alex City and attended Avondale School and Benjamin Russell High School from which he graduated in 1959.  He then went to the University of Alabama where he received a degree in Civil Engineering in 1964.