Sadie Pearl Chandler Blosser, 89, of Beaumont, died Thursday, August 9, 2007 at Oakwood Manor Nursing Home in Vidor. She was born in Hemphill in Sabine County on April 22, 1918 to Lawson Hollis Chandler and Mattie Leona Clark Chandler.
Sadie came to Beaumont as a young woman and worked as a hair stylist at the salon in the old La Salle Hotel. She married Charles Blosser on April 9, 1944. After marriage, Sadie continued her beauty work in her shop behind the couple’s house on Hazel Street. She and Charles also worked as poll workers monitoring the voting at Averill School. For many years she did volunteer work at Christus Hospital St. Elizabeth; she enjoyed working at Some Other Place Soup Kitchen and serving as secretary for the Alpha Omega Sunday School Class. Sadie and Charles loved visiting Nappanee, Indiana sometimes spending whole summers there with relatives.
Late in life Sadie and Charles learned that they were going to have a baby. However, their joy turned to sorrow when the child was stillborn. Marilyn Clark Blosser was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park on August 24, 1958. Sadie and Charles were happily married until his death in 1989.
Her survivors include her half-sister, Mary Haskins of Crystal Beach; half-brother, Herman Chandler of Pennsylvania; nephews, Joe Chandler of Nederland and Bill Chandler of Austin; nieces, Laura Fay McLallen of Bedford, Nancy Chandler of Houston, Mary Beth Hunt of Buna, Barbara Janac of Kirbyville, and Sue Flanagan of Beaumont; great niece, Larinda Bucklew of Grand Prairie; great nephew, Bert Chatagnier of Lake Charles, Louisiana; and sister-in-law, Helen Chandler of Vidor.
Her five brothers, Clyde Chandler, Jess Chandler, V.B. Chandler, Audrey Chandler and Preston Chandler; one sister, Vera Chandler; and one niece, Brenda Chandler Chatagnier preceded her in death.
Sadie will be long remembered by her many friends, relatives, in-laws and members of First United Methodist Church of Beaumont of which she was a member for sixty-three years.
A memorial service will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 22, 2007 in the Longe Chapel of First United Methodist Church under the direction of Broussard’s, 2000 McFaddin, Beaumont.
Memorial contributions may be made to First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 3247, Beaumont, Texas 77704.
