Marian Jack (Good) Blanton's Obituary
Marian Jack (Good) Blanton passed peacefully early Friday morning November 29. Born September 8, 1921, Marian was the only beloved child of Willie Charlotte and Marion Good. Bright and curious, she was a class treasurer and annual literary editor in high school, and she danced the Can-Can at the Texas State Fair 1936. She attended Texas Women’s University as a journalism student where she was voted Aggie Football Sweetheart her sophomore year.In 1942, she married her high school sweetheart, Jack Blanton. As the wife of this farmer, businessman, newspaperman, mayor, state legislator, and stranger to absolutely no one, she brought graceful humility and a frank faith in God and goodness to their many, many endeavors. She did it all — running the newspaper when Jack was in school and she was pregnant with her first child, making campaign calls, hosting last minute dinner parties for visiting foreign dignitaries and making small talk with Ladybird Johnson. She managed to do it all with beauty and humor, and make you feel like you were doing it all much better. Stylish, and well read, she was lead by her curiosity to discover the world and a drive to make it better.As a devoted United Methodist, she taught Sunday school, lead bible study, and organized vacation bible school into her 70’s. But like most women of her time, she gave the most of herself to her family. A devoted daughter, cousin, wife, mother, aunt, godmother, grandmother & great grandmother, she loved us all fiercely. She remembered your friends’ names. She made sure you got an ice cream birthday cake even though it was the hottest day of the year. She fixed three different kinds of enchiladas to satisfy us all. She suffered no foolishness, but when she got going laughing, we all laughed too.She is survived be her daughters, Joan Keck and Mary Watts, and their husbands, Kevin and Brad, by her daughter-in-law Georjean Blanton Renquist & her husband Mike, grandchildren Chris Symmank and his wife Johanna Green, Sonnet Blanton and husband Alex Wettreich, John Wood and Susanne Pasay Wood, Marion Helen & Brendan O’Sullivan, Madeleine Watts & Benny Worley, and Amelia Watts, and great grandchildren, Linus Wettreich, Cadence Symmank, and Nolan and Nora O’Sullivan.
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