Calhoun-Barry County MI Archives Obituaries.....Corkins, Gilbert J. December 18, 1993
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Battle Creek Enquirer Dec. 20, 1993
  Gilbert J. Corkins, 74, of Nashville, died Saturday, Dec. 20, 1993, in Battle 
Creek Health System/Lelia Site.
 He was born April 7, 1919, in Battle Creek to Fredrick and Jeanette (Wheat) 
Corkins. He attended Battle Creek Central High School.
 He was employed at Eaton Corp. and A-B Stove Co. in Battle Creek and retired 
from E. W. Bliss Co. in Hastings in 1981 after 30 years of service.
 He was a member and past master of Nashville Masonic Lodge 255, F&A.M., and 
Royal Arch Masons, Zion Chapter, Nashville. he was a former member of the Dad's 
Club of the Nashville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post.
 He attended Vermontville Bible Church and was a member of the Cedar Creek 
Baptist Church in Silver Springs, Fla. where he and his wife had spent their 
winters the past 12 years.
 He married the former Huldey A. Van Alstine in Battle Creek on June 6, 1942. 
They spent most of their married life in Nashville. She survives.
 Mr. Corkins enjoyed fishing, hunting, reading and his family.
 Also surviving are a son Frederick R., of Vermontville, and a daughter, Judith 
Jenkins of Elkhart, Ind.; six grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; and a 
sister, Olive Van Order of Battle Creek.
 He was proceeded in death by isx brothers and two sisters.
 Services: 3 p.m. today at the Maple Valley Chapel-Genther Funeral Home, 
Nashville, with the Rev. Dan Smitth and the nashvilel Masonic Lodge Officiating.
 Memorials: Putnam Library, Nashville.

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Lakeview Cemetery, Castleton Township, Barry County, MI

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