Leon ''Buddy'' Blevins

BLEVINS, Leon “Buddy”, age 70 of Panama City, Florida, formerly of Maryville, passed away Friday, April 26, 2002, at Gulf Coast Medical Hospital. He was of the Protestant faith. He retired from the United States Army as a Sergeant Major, and from the Bay County Sheriff’s Department as a Captain. He was a member of the Pythagoras Masonic Lodge No. 358, the Shaddia Shrine Temple and the O.E.S. Miracle Chapter No. 306. He was preceded in death by his parents, Sedric and Ethel Blevins; brothers, Howard, Mayford, Kenneth and Marvin Blevins; sister, Dorothy Law. Survivors include: his wife, Virginia Blevins of Panama City, FL; son, Matthew Blevins and wife Charlene of Houston, TX; daughter, Donna Blevins-Rendon and husband Joe of Houston, TX; grandchildren, Jason Medina, Heather Blevins, Brooke Rendon, Ryan Blevins and Matthew Blevins; great granddaughter, Michelle Medina; brother and sister-in-law, Earl and Brenda Blevins; sisters and brothers-in-law, Margaret and Ervil Russell, Juanita and Sam Whitehead, Jean and Don Matlock and Mildred Fagg; sister-in-law, Grace Blevins; several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in McCammon-Ammons-Click Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Carl White and Rev. Alvin Patton officiating. The interment will follow in Old Piney Cemetery with a Full Military Honor Guard. The family will receive friends from 1-2:30 p.m. Saturday at McCammon-Ammons-Click Funeral Home, Maryville. McCammon-Ammons-Click Funeral Home, Maryville 982-6812 www.mccammonammonsclick.com