Stephanie ‘Petie’ Blanchard, 79, pre-school founder, businesswoman - Plymouth Independent

Stephanie ‘Petie’ Blanchard, 79, pre-school founder, businesswoman - Plymouth Independent

Petie (Stephanie Main) Blanchard, who partnered with her family on a design studio and worked for 20 years in her husband’s architecture office, died quietly June 29 from complications of Lewy Body Dementia. She was 79. Born in 1947 in Millis, MA, to the late Edgar and Pauline Main, she graduated from Millis High School in 1964 and from Northeastern Forsyth Dental School for Hygiene in 1969. She helped found Building Blocks, a nonprofit preschoo…