Cherokee Co. OK. obit for: Vivian Minnie (Cook) Sims Akins ********************************************************************** Posted to Cherokee Co. OK Archives 7/07/2002 http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cherokee/cherokee.htm Submitted by: Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** May 19, 1999 Stillwater Daily Newspress Vivian Minnie (COOK) Sims Akins died at her home in Stillwater, Okla. on Monday May 17, 1999. Services will be held in Strode Chapel on Friday May, 21, 1999 with Jerry KRUCKENBURG officiating. Burial will be in Grandview Cemetery in Tahlequah, Oklahoma at 3:00 p.m. Vivian was born Dec. 31, 1923 in Tahlequah, Oklahoma to Samuel Wilburn and Rosa Bell (Hancock)COOK. She attended schools in Tahlequah and Bartlesville, Oklahoma. On Aug. 28, 1939 she married James Robert SIMS who died in 1949. She married Herman Cornell "Carl AKINS in June 1953 in Tulsa, Okla. Mr. AKINS died in 1988. In 1963 Mrs. AKINS moved to Enid, Okla. where she remained until 1984 at which time she moved to Stillwater, Okla. In addition to her husbands she was preceded in death by one son Jerry James SIMS, three brothers, Murriel Leo COOK, Louisville KY, Donald Rae COOK, Waco, TX. and Marion Park COOK, in Japan, two sisters, one grandson, Carl Dean DWINELL, one granddaughter Rhonda Kay WOODS, and one Great granddaughter Ashley. Survivors include, three (actually only 2) sons, Wendell Robert SIMS of Stillwarer, OK, Ira Earl SIMS of Blackwell, OK and 6 daughters, Mrs. Stella SIMS of Calif., Mrs. Naomi SIMS EUBANKS of Stillwater, OK. Leola SIMS CHOATE of Enid, OK. Mrs. Sandra WARRINGTON of Perkins, OK. Mrs. Roberta SIMS BABB of OK. and Mrs. Glenda Sue SIMS WARREN of KS. 45 Grandchildren, 10 Great grandchildren, four brothers, Samuel Wilburn COOK, Jr. of Miami, Ok. Carl Eugene COOK of Moore, Ok., Charles Luther COOK of Stillwater, Ok. and William Arthur "Bill" COOK of Grand Prairie, Tx. Two sisters, Mrs Ruth Ann COOK WHITE of Chadron, Neb. and Mrs. Betty Jean COOK and husband David TAUTFEST of Ponca City, OK. Pallbearers are grandsons, David DENNIS, Murl Ray MEDLEY, Jr. Robert DWINELL Wayne Eldon MEDLEY, Steven DITTMEYER and Billy Joe DWINELL Honorary pallbearers are Gene BABB and Ray BABB, Jr. Submitted by Bill Cook billcook44@aol.com