Zara Lee Blankinship
October 6, 1927 – June 1, 2018
Zara Lee Blankinship passed away June 1, 2018. He was born October 6, 1927 in Wichita, Kansas to Zara S Blankinship and Bennie Lee Thompson. The family relocated to the Rio Grande Valley in 1930. Zara worked for his father at Blankinship Auto Repair through high school and began working for the U.S. Border Patrol as a mechanic in 1949.
