This week’s Graves of the Week are Luke and Tammy Blankenship. Tammy Henley was born in Missouri in 1965 and grew up in Exeter and Visalia. Luke Blankenship was born in Kansas and grew up in Porterville. The two married in Exeter in in 1997.
Tammy worked at Future Transitions; a place dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with developmental disabilities. Tammy’s son was born with a mental disability, and she was his primary caregiver. Caring for him led her to Future Transitions where she taught other parents how to take care of their handicapped children. Tammy loved all the children she met at Future Transitions.
Luke worked for Waterman Industries in Exeter and was like a son to Tammy’s mother. When he passed, she said Luke and Tammy “were both people you find few and far between.”
Unfortunately, their vow of “til death do us part” came true on May 27, 2006, when they were involved in a car accident on Avenue 196. They were coming home from a camping trip near Balch Park and were going to chaperone a youth dance at the Church of Latter-Day Saints in Exeter.
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