FLOYD COUNTY, GA - OBITS - Bessie Mae Dobbs Atkins

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Obituary for Bessie Mae Dobbs Atkins, December 12, 1883 -
April 19, 1963


Mrs. Bessie Mae Atkins, 79, 326 West 9th St., died
unexpectedly Friday at 6:15 P.M. in Atlanta while
visiting her daughter, Mrs. Alex McCary.


Mrs. Atkins was born in Floyd County December 12, 1883, a
daughter of the late Joe and Mary Dobbs and had resided
here her entire life with the exception of 29 years spent
in Hartselle, Morgan Co., ALa.  She was a member of the
Cross Roads Baptist Church in Bartow County and was
preceded in death by her husband, Joel C. Atkins, in
1942.


Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Von Brock, Rome,
Mrs. Alex McCary, Atlanta, Mrs. Mildred Stone, Cleveland,
Ohio, and Mrs. Pauline Evans, Huntsville, Ala.; five
sons, Herman Atkins, East Point, Clarence Atkins, Burney,
Calif., Clifford Atkins, Des Moines, Iowa, Glenn and J.
C. Atkins of Rome; two sisters, Mrs. Bertie Mull, Rome
and Mrs. Ninnie Comption [sic] of Lindale.  Thirty
grandchildren, twenty-five great grandchildren, and a
number of nieces and nephews also survive.


Funeral services will be held at 2 P.M. Monday in the
chapel of Jennings Funeral Home with the Rev. H. W.
Willis officiating.  Interment will be in the family lot
in Cross Roads Cemetery at Taylorsville.


The body will remain at the funeral home and the family
will receive friends there from 8 until 10 P.M. today.
At other hours the family will be at the residence of the
daughter, Mrs. Von Brock, 102 Pineway Drive.


Grandsons will serve as pallbearers and includes, Roy,
Raymond and Hugh Atkins, Bobbie Cornelison, Calvin Broome
[sic] and Loyd [sic] Evans. Jennings Funeral Home has
charge of the arrangements