Kathryn Ann F. Blankenship met her Jesus face to face on Sunday, March 17, 2019. Kathryn was born October 23, 1953, in Kingsport, to the late Odus Clay and Beulah Freeman. She graduated from Dobyns-Bennett High School in 1972 with honors and graduated from UT Knoxville and the UT School of Law in 1979.