Tylar Lea Blankenship, Topeka
1990 - 2008
The Mass of Christian Burial was celebrated this morning for Tylar Lea Blankenship, 17, who died Thursday, Jan. 3, 2008, at Midland Hospice.
Cremation followed the mass, which was held at Mater Dei’s Holy Name Church in Topeka.
Tylar Lea Blankenship was born Sept. 14, 1990, in Topeka. Among her survivors is a grandfather, Dean Judson of Emporia.
Other survivors are her parents, Flint and Rose Mary Blankenship of the home; a grandfather, Bill McMurphy of Sabetha; her biological parents, Mark Harvey of Osage City and Jodi Judson McCubbin of Sabetha; four sisters, TaBetha and TeAira Harvey of Sabetha, Taygon Stinnett of Kincaid, and Tanneil Harvey of Osage City; and a grandmother, Ann Moench of Hurley, Mo.
A sister, Heather Blankenship, died July 30, 2006.
Memorial donations to Stormont-Vail Pediatrics Department, TARC, or Midland Hospice Care, may be sent in care of Brennan-Mathena Funeral Home, 800 SW Sixth St., Topeka KS 66603.
Messages to the family may be left at www.brennanmathenafh.com.