Laries Blakeney Huntley was born on August 24, 1951, in Pageland,

South Carolina. She graduated from Pageland High School in 1969. She later moved to

Wingate, North Carolina where she worked at Cooper Tools and later for Union County

School System. Laries was loved by many. She loved children, cooking, reading,

traveling, family and friends and dancing. Ohhhhh, how she loved to dance!

She was preceded in death by her mother Ethel Blakeney, father Langston Blakeney,

brothers Mac Athur Blakeney, Donnie Blakeney, Elin Blakeney, sisters Betty Thompson,

and Shirley Williams.