Blanche Elzora Wehmeyer

Blanche Elzora Wehmeyer, 94, of Thebes, died Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024, at Mercy Southeast Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born on Aug. 26, 1930, in Alexander County, the daughter of Amos Franklin and Lucy Mae Shaver Bledsoe. 

On May 12, 1947, she married the love of her life, Robert Winston Wehmeyer, and together they spent over 63 years with one another until his passing in 2010. 

She was a lifetime member of what is now Alexander Free Will Baptist Church. Other memberships included Beech Grove Ladies Aid and the Thebes Historical Society. She spent her working career at Woolworths, Homestead and Super X Pharmacy.

Survivors include her son, Bill (Debbie) Wehmeyer; grandchildren Sherri (Donnie) Blaney, Bryan (Stacy) Wehmeyer, Shawn Grubb, LaDonna (Jacqueline) Harper Grubb, Darren (Jessica) Wehmeyer and Brock (Sasha) Wehmeyer; honorary granddaughter Sabrina McAllister; 12 great-grandchildren, Brandon (Briana), April (Corlis), Brooke, Katashia, Sydney, Bryce, Keisha, Kristen, Megan, Ainsley, Emma and Elijah; and 11 great-great-grandchildren, Westyn, Rhys, Grant, Tate, Elijah, Kaylee, Leslie, Londynn, Maddie, Avery and Delilah. 

Along with her parents and husband, she was preceded in death by her son, Robert “Buddy” Wehmeyer; two daughters, Becky Wehmeyer and Brenda Grubb; one grandson, Donnie Wayne Grubb Jr.; and siblings Roy Bledsoe, Lloyd Bledsoe, Frank Bledsoe and Wanda Buckman.

Funeral services were at noon Monday, Dec. 9, at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms, with the Rev. Sam Ramdial officiating. 

Interment followed the funeral service at Rose Hill Cemetery in Thebes.

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Crain Funeral Home in Tamms was in charge of arrangements.