ADKINS OBITUARIES, Henry County, Missouri
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ADKINS, Louise Mae WORTH 1873 - 1960

Clinton Eye, Tues, Sept 4 1960 - Last rites for Mrs. Louise Mae Adkins, Clinton, a 
long time Brownington resident who died unexpectedly at 10:30 p.m. Sept. 1, at 
Wetzel Hospital, were conducted at Vansant Funeral Home at 3:30 p.m. Sept. 4 by 
the Rev. W. H. Webster. Mrs. Lillian Douglas was organist. Pallbearers were Lee 
Klutz, Harry Finks, Jr., F. G. Hartner, Bill Walters, Bill Starbuck and R. R. 
Shewmaker. Burial was in Maplewood Cemetery, Brownington. Mrs. Adkins was 
visiting in the R. R. Shewmaker home when she became ill and was taken to the 
hospital. The past three years or so she had made her home with her daughter, 
Mrs. Mable Whitworth on West Jefferson. Mrs. Adkins had planned her visit in her 
native Brownington while her daughter, on vacation, visited in Madison, Wis. Mrs. 
Whitworth had left only two days before, Aug. 30, accompanying her cousin, Miss 
Cecile Vogelbaugh home after she visited two weeks here and in other Missouri 
points. Louise Mae Worth was born in Brownington Nov. 22, 1873, one of eight 
children of Christian H. and Mary Ann Dietz Worth. Four brothers and two sisters 
preceded her in death. She grew to womanhood there and on Dec. 12, 1897, 
married Joseph T. Adkins in Kansas City who died in Sept. of 1926. As Mr. Adkins 
was a railroader their home, first established at Holmes Park, was changed at 
various times due to transfers but the greater part of her life was spent in 
Brownington. In later years she spent her winters in Clinton with the one child 
which blessed this union, Mrs. Whitworth, before moving here. As a small child 
she united with the Brownington Presbyterian Church and upon its discontinuance 
became a member of the Clinton First Presbyterian. She was also a member of 
the Royal Neighbors and of the Ladies Auxiliary to the Trainmen in Kansas City. 
She leave her daughter, three granddaughters, Mrs. Paul F. Parker, Austin, Texas, 
Louann Walker, Los Angeles, California, Mrs. Gene ( Linda) Stewart, Topeka, 
Kansas; two great-grandchildren; a brother, J. C. Worth, Brownington, an only 
niece, Miss Cecile Vogelbaugh, Madison, Wisconsin; a number of other relatives 
and many friends. 

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