Mary Susan Blanton, daughter of the late John J. Ivy and Aurelia Fields Ivy, was born on November 29, 1952, in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, and departed this life on March 16, 2025, at Missouri Delta Medical Center in Sikeston, Missouri, at the age of 72 years.

Ms. Blanton retired from Arvin Automotive in Dexter with 20 years of service, and she attended Calvary Baptist Church in Dexter. She loved animals, her family, her grandchildren and she loved to season her food with pepper.

She is survived by her daughter, Amy Jo Colbert of Anadarko, Oklahoma; by three grandchildren, Alexander Pugh, Aurelia Colbert, and Bobby Colbert; by her sister-in-law, Marianna Burge of Dexter, Missouri; and by her niece, Jamie Burge Hissong of Hernando, Mississippi.

Other than by her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Jimmie Burge.

Visitation will be held at Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter on Thursday, March 20, 2025, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Funeral services will then be conducted in the Mathis Funeral Home Chapel on Thursday, March 20, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. Interment will follow in Chalk Bluff Cemetery.

Mathis Funeral Home in Dexter is assisting with arrangements.