Services for Geraldine “Jerry” Ratliff Blakely will be held at 3:00 pm, graveside, Tuesday, September 30, 2014 at Moore Memorial Gardens in Arlington. Friends are invited to join the family for visitation at the grave the hour prior to the service.
Jerry was born February 26, 1924 in Boyd, Texas to Thomas Ellison Ratliff and Edna Reeves Ratliff. She grew up and attended school in Boyd where she graduated as the Valedictorian of her class. Mrs. Blakely was employed for several years as an Executive Secretary for the Federal Government but her life’s work was as a loving and devoted homemaker, mother, and wife. Jerry adored her grandchildren and great-grandchildren and loved to travel. She was a lifelong, faithful servant of God and a long- time member of Lamar Baptist Church.
Mrs. Blakely was preceded in death by her husband of 63 years, Lloyd Afton Blakely on July 3, 2007, by one son, Ronald Lloyd Blakely on June 26, 2007, and by one brother and one sister.
Survivors include one daughter, Angela Collins and husband James, four grandchildren; Don Blakely, Judy Robertson (Clay), Chris Collins (Barbie), Wendy Smith (Preston), nine great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren as well as several nieces and nephews including a special nephew Alva Nilson.
In lieu of flowers memorials are requested to the Arlington Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, 800 West Randol Mill Road, Arlington, Texas 76012
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