Published online and in the News and Observer (Raleigh, NC). Names of living survivors redacted.
Bernard Berkeley Blanchard died peacefully at the age of 84 on July 18, 2006. The fourth child of the Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Rives Berkeley of Roanoke, VA, Mrs. Blanchard was born in Saluda, NC, where the family was vacationing in the mountains. She was the granddaughter of Governor and Mrs. Richard I. Manning of Columbia, SC.
After graduating from Stuart Hall in Staunton, VA, Mrs. Blanchard graduated with honors from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA, where she was the only member of her class to major in chemistry. After graduation, she worked in Roanoke in a medical clinic as a lab analyst. She then began a very successful career selling life insurance for the Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. Within a few years she was the company's leading sales agent, becoming its only woman to belong to the quarter-million dollar roundtable for insurance sales.
In 1952, she married Charles Fuller Blanchard, who she frequently said was the best thing that ever happened to her. She joined him in Raleigh, where they lived for the past 54 years. They were blessed with two devoted daughters, [names redacted], both of Raleigh.
Known for her compassionate spirit, humility, and quick wit, Mrs. Blanchard was loved and admired by those who knew her. She lived to serve others, reaching out with a gracious heart and effervescent spirit. For 52 years, she was a member of her beloved St. Michael's Episcopal Church, where she served as President of the Episcopal Church Women and as a Vestry member. But her favorite church activity was visiting and delivering casseroles to the homebound. She also served the community through her involvement in the Junior League of Raleigh, the Association of Retarded Citizens of Wake County, the Raleigh Oratorio Society, and the Hollins Alumnae Association.
Mrs. Blanchard relished the life-long friendships she made through the Auxiliary of the Wake County Bar Association and the Joel Lane Historical Society, for both of which she served as President, the Olla Podrida Book Club, the High Noon Book Club, Colonial Dames Society, the Carolina Country Club, the Coral Bay Club, and the Study Club, the last of which she and her husband were members for half a century.
Bernard Berkeley Blanchard died peacefully at the age of 84 on July 18, 2006. The fourth child of the Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Rives Berkeley of Roanoke, VA, Mrs. Blanchard was born in Saluda, NC, where the family was vacationing in the mountains. She was the granddaughter of Governor and Mrs. Richard I. Manning of Columbia, SC.
After graduating from Stuart Hall in Staunton, VA, Mrs. Blanchard graduated with honors from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA, where she was the only member of her class to major in chemistry. After graduation, she worked in Roanoke in a medical clinic as a lab analyst. She then began a very successful career selling life insurance for the Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. Within a few years she was the company's leading sales agent, becoming its only woman to belong to the quarter-million dollar roundtable for insurance sales.
In 1952, she married Charles Fuller Blanchard, who she frequently said was the best thing that ever happened to her. She joined him in Raleigh, where they lived for the past 54 years. They were blessed with two devoted daughters, [names redacted], both of Raleigh.
Known for her compassionate spirit, humility, and quick wit, Mrs. Blanchard was loved and admired by those who knew her. She lived to serve others, reaching out with a gracious heart and effervescent spirit. For 52 years, she was a member of her beloved St. Michael's Episcopal Church, where she served as President of the Episcopal Church Women and as a Vestry member. But her favorite church activity was visiting and delivering casseroles to the homebound. She also served the community through her involvement in the Junior League of Raleigh, the Association of Retarded Citizens of Wake County, the Raleigh Oratorio Society, and the Hollins Alumnae Association.
Mrs. Blanchard relished the life-long friendships she made through the Auxiliary of the Wake County Bar Association and the Joel Lane Historical Society, for both of which she served as President, the Olla Podrida Book Club, the High Noon Book Club, Colonial Dames Society, the Carolina Country Club, the Coral Bay Club, and the Study Club, the last of which she and her husband were members for half a century.
Published online and in the News and Observer (Raleigh, NC). Names of living survivors redacted.
Bernard Berkeley Blanchard died peacefully at the age of 84 on July 18, 2006. The fourth child of the Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Rives Berkeley of Roanoke, VA, Mrs. Blanchard was born in Saluda, NC, where the family was vacationing in the mountains. She was the granddaughter of Governor and Mrs. Richard I. Manning of Columbia, SC.
After graduating from Stuart Hall in Staunton, VA, Mrs. Blanchard graduated with honors from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA, where she was the only member of her class to major in chemistry. After graduation, she worked in Roanoke in a medical clinic as a lab analyst. She then began a very successful career selling life insurance for the Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. Within a few years she was the company's leading sales agent, becoming its only woman to belong to the quarter-million dollar roundtable for insurance sales.
In 1952, she married Charles Fuller Blanchard, who she frequently said was the best thing that ever happened to her. She joined him in Raleigh, where they lived for the past 54 years. They were blessed with two devoted daughters, [names redacted], both of Raleigh.
Known for her compassionate spirit, humility, and quick wit, Mrs. Blanchard was loved and admired by those who knew her. She lived to serve others, reaching out with a gracious heart and effervescent spirit. For 52 years, she was a member of her beloved St. Michael's Episcopal Church, where she served as President of the Episcopal Church Women and as a Vestry member. But her favorite church activity was visiting and delivering casseroles to the homebound. She also served the community through her involvement in the Junior League of Raleigh, the Association of Retarded Citizens of Wake County, the Raleigh Oratorio Society, and the Hollins Alumnae Association.
Mrs. Blanchard relished the life-long friendships she made through the Auxiliary of the Wake County Bar Association and the Joel Lane Historical Society, for both of which she served as President, the Olla Podrida Book Club, the High Noon Book Club, Colonial Dames Society, the Carolina Country Club, the Coral Bay Club, and the Study Club, the last of which she and her husband were members for half a century.
Bernard Berkeley Blanchard died peacefully at the age of 84 on July 18, 2006. The fourth child of the Rev. and Mrs. Alfred Rives Berkeley of Roanoke, VA, Mrs. Blanchard was born in Saluda, NC, where the family was vacationing in the mountains. She was the granddaughter of Governor and Mrs. Richard I. Manning of Columbia, SC.
After graduating from Stuart Hall in Staunton, VA, Mrs. Blanchard graduated with honors from Hollins University in Roanoke, VA, where she was the only member of her class to major in chemistry. After graduation, she worked in Roanoke in a medical clinic as a lab analyst. She then began a very successful career selling life insurance for the Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. Within a few years she was the company's leading sales agent, becoming its only woman to belong to the quarter-million dollar roundtable for insurance sales.
In 1952, she married Charles Fuller Blanchard, who she frequently said was the best thing that ever happened to her. She joined him in Raleigh, where they lived for the past 54 years. They were blessed with two devoted daughters, [names redacted], both of Raleigh.
Known for her compassionate spirit, humility, and quick wit, Mrs. Blanchard was loved and admired by those who knew her. She lived to serve others, reaching out with a gracious heart and effervescent spirit. For 52 years, she was a member of her beloved St. Michael's Episcopal Church, where she served as President of the Episcopal Church Women and as a Vestry member. But her favorite church activity was visiting and delivering casseroles to the homebound. She also served the community through her involvement in the Junior League of Raleigh, the Association of Retarded Citizens of Wake County, the Raleigh Oratorio Society, and the Hollins Alumnae Association.
Mrs. Blanchard relished the life-long friendships she made through the Auxiliary of the Wake County Bar Association and the Joel Lane Historical Society, for both of which she served as President, the Olla Podrida Book Club, the High Noon Book Club, Colonial Dames Society, the Carolina Country Club, the Coral Bay Club, and the Study Club, the last of which she and her husband were members for half a century.
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