Lenora Blount

Lenora Frances Deas Blount, of Watkinsville, Georgia, (formerly of Fayetteville, Georgia), died Saturday, October 11, 2014, at the age of ninety at St. Mary’s Hospice, Athens, Georgia. She was born February 24, 1924, in Jennings, Florida, to Alexander and Jimmie Deas as the seventh of 13 children. She was raised on the family farm surrounded by grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins, and was a member of Burnham Christian Church. After she graduated from Jennings High School, she attended St. Vincent’s Nursing School in Jacksonville, Florida. During World War II, she began work for Southern Bell as a telephone operator in Savannah, Georgia but was shortly transferred to Atlanta, Georgia. She continued to work at Southern Bell and, then, AT&T, until her retirement in 1989. In Atlanta, Lenora met Herbert Ray Blount, Sr., and after a three-month courtship they were married on April 19, 1946, at Peachtree Christian Church, a marriage that lasted for more than 48 years until Herbert’s death. She and Herbert welcomed five children. She said her hobbies were driving her children to all their many activities. She was famous for her Sunday dinners and good Southern cooking. Lenora is survived by a sister, Geree Smoak, of Norcross, Georgia, and a brother Santa Deas of Lake Park, Georgia and by her children, Alecia and husband, Ken Scally, of New London, North Carolina, Ray Blount and wife, Elizabeth, of Woodstock, Georgia, Rodney Blount and wife, Suzette, of Watkinsville, Georgia, Anne and husband, Jay Fletcher, of Marietta, Georgia, and Randy Blount and wife, Debbie, of Acworth, Georgia. Her grandchildren, James Blount, Sean Scally and wife, Christie, Jessica Blount, Kristina Scally, Kelly Blount-Smith and husband, James Smith, Gregory Fletcher and wife, Kelly, Meaghan Blount and fiancé, Drew Atkinson, Chase Blount and a great-grandson, Leighton Scally, also survive her. Services will be held Wednesday, October 15, 2014, 11 a.m., at Parrott Funeral Home, 8355 Senoia Road, Fairburn, Georgia 30213. Visitation will be held Tuesday, October 14, 2014, 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Parrott Funeral Home. Interment will be at Greenwood Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia. Parrott Funeral Home and Crematory, 770-964-4800.

Lenora Blount

February 24, 1924 - October 11, 2014