Mrs. Mary Kathleen Neaves Blevins, age 82, of Lansing died Monday evening, April 20, 2009 at Ashe Memorial Hospital. Funeral services will be held on Thursday, April 23, 2009 at 11:00am at Oak Hill Missionary Baptist Church with Rev. Lonnie Carpenter and Rev. J.C. Darnell officiating. The body will lie in state one hour prior to the funeral service. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00-8:00pm on Wednesday, April 22, 2009 at Boone Family Funeral Home. Mrs. Blevins was born in Ashe County on Tuesday, March 8, 1927 to the late James Oscar and Evelyn Johnson Neaves. She worked on production at Sprague Electric. She was a faithful member of Oak Hill Missionary Baptist Church. She loved flowers, gardening and listening to gospel music. She played an autoharp and sang herself. She was preceded in death by her husband, Russell Jackson Blevins and a son, Darrell Blevins. Mrs. Blevins is survived by three sons, Mitch Blevins and wife, Cindy, of Greensboro, Steve Blevins and wife, Sandy, of Crumpler and Garry Blevins of Charlotte; two daughters, Kathy Harris and husband, Rick, of Charlotte and Linda Pruitt and husband, Dick, of Huntersville; two sisters, Virginia Barker of Jefferson and Helen Richardson of Crumpler; eleven grandchildren; eleven great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews also survive. Flowers accepted or memorials may be made to: Oak Hill Baptist Church Cemetery Fund, c/o Betty Mahaffey, 4810 East Little Horse Creek Road, Lansing, NC 28643.