Lena Blanche Housel Obituary

Mrs. Lena Blanche Housel, age 78, of Midland, Georgia passed away on Monday, January 24th, 2022, at Columbus Hospice in Columbus, Georgia.

Blanche was born on June 10th, 1943, in Langdale, Alabama. She grew up in the Langdale Congregational Christian Church and attended many Protestant churches over the years. She had a special love for children with disabilities and was a foster mother for over twenty-five years.

Blanche is survived by her children, Michael Lee Housel, Deborah Diane Housel, and Joseph Allen Housel (Sydney Driskill); sister, LaMurle Wadkins.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lee Allen Housel; and her parents, James M. and Bessie L. Wadkins.

Funeral services will be held on Friday, January 28th, 2022, at 2:00 PM (EST) at the Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home Chapel in Valley. Interment will follow in Oakwood Cemetery. Pastor Jeff Skinner will officiate. Blanche’s family will receive friends Friday afternoon from 1:00 PM (EST) until the service hour at the funeral home.

Please visit Blanche’s Memorial Tribute page a www.johnsonbrownservicefh.com to leave a condolence for her family, to share a memory of Blanche, or to light a Remembrance Candle in her memory.

Johnson Brown-Service Funeral Home of Valley directing.