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Minerva Jane Fleming Lavezzi Blanke, 87, died Nov. 22 in her home in Lakewood, Colo. In the 1950s and 1960s, she was president of National Bedding Co. in Chicago as she raised her four children. She also was a registered nurse in Cleveland and a bookkeeper for Innomax Corp. in Denver. She graduated from St. Elizabeth School of Nursing in Danville, Ill., in 1933. Twice-widowed, Mrs. Blanke is survived by two daughters, Jane Lavezzi Gallegos and Judith Lavezzi Grother; and two sons, Thomas and William. Services were held last week in Colorado.
