Louise B. Riffe Louise H. Blankenship Riffe, 69, of Lower Sandlick Road, Glen Daniel, died Sunday, April 18, 1999, in a Beckley hospital following a long illness. Born Jan. 14, 1930, at Bull Creek in McDowell County, she was the daughter of the late Kelly and Octavia Deskins Blankenship. Mrs. Riffe spent her childhood in McDowell County, where she graduated from Iaeger High School. She was an active member of the Bethany Regular Baptist Church at Ikes Fork and the Friendship Association. She had been a resident of Raleigh County since 1954, having lived at Sandlick for the past 25 years. She had been employed at Holiday Inn and Days Inn, Beckley, having last worked for Gold Star Tours as a tour escort. She had been very active in school activities at Shady Spring and Trap Hill high schools for a number of years. She was preceded in death by her husband, Cullen Riffe on Oct. 31, 1998; an infant son, Freddie Dean; three brothers, William, Walter and Leonard; and two infant sisters, Mary Elizabeth and Dorothy Blankenship. Survivors include a son, Jack and his wife, Wanzie, of Glen Daniel; two daughters, Deborah L. Miller and her husband, Skip, of Beckley, and Amanda Kirk and her husband, Wayne, of Beaver; two granddaughters, Heather Louise and Leah Dawn Kirk and two sisters, Ida Woodward of Hendersonville, Tenn., and June Green of Hamilton, Ohio; and many nieces, nephews, and a host of friends. Services will be 1 p.m. Wednesday at Melton Mortuary Chapel with Elders Eddie Cline, Bryce Phillips, Cecil Belcher and Jack Cook officiating. Burial will follow in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Beckley. Friends may call 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Nephews will serve as pallbearers. Arrangements by Melton Mortuary, Beckley from June Green's research.