Marguerite A. Blaylock, 90, Seneca, Kansas, died early Saturday morning, April 28, 2007, at the Sabetha Manor in Sabetha.

She was born February 16, 1917, in Seneca, the daughter of George A. and Margaret McNally Sausser. She grew up in Seneca and graduated from the Seneca Public High School in 1936. Following high school, she attended beauty school in St. Joseph, Missouri and then worked in a beauty shop in Concordia, Kansas.

While she was in Concordia, Marguerite met Burr Luther Blaylock, a watchmaker and jeweler; they were married June 26, 2006 in Seneca. They moved to Kansas City in the early 1940s where she worked in the office of the Douglas bomber plant in the Fairfax District. After the war, they opened Blaylock Jewelry Store in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. They later moved to Prairie Village. Her husband, Burr, died December 26, 1966.

Marguerite kept the store open on her own for 10 years and then went to work for Stix-Baer & Fuller in their jewelry department. She also worked for Dillard’s after they bought out Stix. Her whole life was centered on being in the jewelry trade, where she enjoyed meeting people. She retired in 1980, and in 1983 moved to Seneca to take care of her mother.

She was a former member of the First Congregational United Church of Christ in Seneca and the Prairie Village Presbyterian Church in Prairie Village, Kansas. She was a member of the Nemaha County Historical Society, where she served in the board. Marguerite also enjoyed the outdoors and nature.

Survivors are a brother, John “Bill” Sausser of Pawnee City, Nebraska; and three sisters, Mamie Beyreis of Prairie Village, Helen Foltz of Raytown, Missouri, and Bessie Droge of Seneca.

Besides her husband, she was preceded in death by a brother, George Sausser, Jr.

Funeral service will be 11 AM Saturday, May 5, at Lauer Funeral Home in Seneca. Inurnment will be in the Seneca City Cemetery.

Memorials contributions are left to the donor’s choice, and may be sent in care of the family.