Berrien County GaArchives Obituaries.....Gaskins, Eloise Nix March 7, 2002 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Shirley McMillan Durden http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00025.html#0006039 April 4, 2012, 7:55 pm The Berrien Press - March 2002 NASHVILLE - Eloise Gaskins, 83, of Nashville, died on Thursday, March 7, 2002, at Louis Smith Memorial Hospital. She was born on July 28, 1918, in Berrien County to Thomas Calvin and Bessie Lee Hill Nix. She was a homemaker and worked for many years with Miller Hardware & Gifts, and was a member of Poplar Springs Missionary Baptist Church. She was the widow of the Rev. Felton L. Gaskins who died in 1989 and was preceded in death by a daughter, Faye Rogers who died in 1994, and a sister, Ruedell Wheeler who died in 2001. She had a loving compassion for her church, her family and her community. Her special love was her flowers. She had served as a Pink Lady at Berrien County Hospital and was a member of the Georgia Realtors Institute. Mrs. Gaskins is survived by one daughter, Carolyn Avrett of Nashville; one son, Huey Gaskins of Nashville; six sisters, Maedee Clifton, Deland, Fla., Betty Martin, Nashville, Christine Pickett, Jacksonville, Fla., Ernestine Browning, Reidsville, Dean Connell and Glenda Faye Bailey, both of Nashville; three brothers, J.T. Nix, Nashville, Ulmer Nix, Oklahoma City, Okla., Billy Nix, Lakeland; eight grandchildren; and 12 great-grandchildren. Funeral service will be held at 4 p.m. Saturday in the chapel of Lovein Funeral Home with the Rev. Gary James officiating. Burial will be in Riverside Cemetery. Visitation will be held after 4 p.m. today with the family receiving friends from 7-9 p.m. Memorials are requested to a church of your choosing. - Lovein Funeral Home File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/berrien/obits/g/gaskins2568nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/gafiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb