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Marge Blanks Steele was born on March 24, 1955, to Ray Blanks, Sr. and Mattie Pearl Rogers Blanks in Marengo County, Alabama. She grew up in Bessemer, Alabama with seven brothers and sisters.
Giving her life to Christ, she joined Starlight Missionary Baptist Church where she remained a life-long member.
Marge attended Jess Lanier High School and Lawson State Community College. Throughout her life, she worked while caring for her children, retiring from Pleasant Grove Health Care.
She was a great mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, daughter, sister, aunt and friend who was not only funloving and generous, but very strong, caring and thoughtful as well.
She passed into the Kingdom of the Lord on December 7, 2025.
She leaves behind three children, Jarvis (Demetria) Blanks, Tarus Steele, and Kizzi Steele. She also had six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren, many nieces and nephews. She is survived by four siblings, Georgie Mae Jackson, Ray, Jr. (Vedia) Blanks, George Ray (LaTonya) Blanks, and Bernard Blanks. She is also preceded in death by three siblings: Jeradene Blanks Davis, Alverner Blanks, and Frank Blanks.
To her family, friends, acquaintances and others, she will always be cherished, honored, remembered with much love and greatly missed.
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