This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Miller, Modesette, McLaughlin Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9802 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 17 Aug 2006 Blanche Miller Modesette, 91, of Rockdale died Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2006 at Manor Oaks Nursing Home. Graveside services were held 10 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 10, at Pleasant Hill Cemetery with Rev. John Warren of St. John’s United Methodist Church officiating. She was born Jan. 6, 1915 in the Pleasant Hill Community to Emil and Mytle (McLaughlin) Miller. Mrs. Modesette, a homemaker and she lived most of her life in Austin and Bartlett. She was also a musician and loved playing the piano. She often played for the Senior Citizens Center and the nursing home. Mrs. Modesette was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Gayle Tarver Modesette, on July 23, 1988; a daughter, Judy Gayle Modesette. on Dec. 14, 2003; a sister, Eleanor Jenkins; and two brothers, Reginald Miller and Pat Miller. Survivors include two daughters, Betty Morton and husband Lloyd of Rockdale and Alice Edmondson and husband Billy Don of Marble Falls; a sister, Ethel Lanford of Austin; six grandchildren, Sandra Satcher and husband C.H., Linda Morton, Rhoni Collier, Evan Edmondson and wife Mandy, Darla Farmer and Philip Payne; eight great-grandchildren, Susie Hubnik, Scotty Matthews, Ethan, Carli and Greyson Edmondson, Mitch Surovik, Alyssa Lord, Ricky Meitzen; and six great-great-grandchildren, Dakota and Katy Hubnik, and Jessica, Wyatt, Bradley and Byron Surovik; also, numerous nieces and nephews. Memorials may be made to the Pleasant Hill Cemetery Fund.