Blanche Earline Smilie Dockens

Blanche Earline Smilie Dockens, 88, of Conroe, died Tuesday, October 10, 2023 in Conroe.  Services will be held at Noon on Friday in Cook-Gerngross-Green-Patterson Funeral Home in Rosebud. Rev. Mark Stovall will officiate. Burial will follow in Powers Chapel Cemetery near Rosebud.

Mrs. Dockens was born December 7, 1934 in Rosebud to Fred Lee and Johnnie Leona Williams Smilie Sr. She married Waymon Wallace Dockens on January 18, 1967.  She graduated from Rosebud High School. She worked as a bookkeeper and as a church secretary. She was a member of the Order of the Eastern Star and Fellowship Baptist  Church in Porter.

She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers, Fred Lee Smilie Jr., William Carlton Smilie, and Jimmy Rogers Smilie, sister, Barbara Ann Smilie, granddaughter, Stephanie Dockens and grandson, Brian Love.

She is survived by her husband, Waymon Wallace Dockens, two sons, Billy Bob Dockens and wife Debra, David Wallace Dockens and wife Suzanne, one daughter, Bonnie Dale Hubbard and husband Joe,  one sister, Mary Helen Smilie, three grandchildren, David Wallace Dockens Jr. and wife Diana, Timothy Michael Dockens and wife  Gina, and Bobbie Dockens Burkland and husband Dr. David Burkland, six great-grandchildren, Aiden Layne Dockens, Teagan Ryder Dockens, Calvin Dockens, Drake Dockens, Avery Dawn Dockens and Jude Stephen Burkland.

Visitation will be held from 10:30 a.m. to Noon on Friday at the funeral home.