Obit for: Vivian Minnie (Cook) Sims Akins (a252) - Payne County OK

Posted to Payne Co. OK Archives 7/07/2002
Submitted by: Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com

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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, Bill C.) sons, Wendell Robert 
SIMS of  Stillwater, OK, Ira Earl SIMS of Blackwell, OK and 6 daughters, 
Mrs. Stella SIMS SMALLWOOD of Calif., Mrs. Naomi SIMS EUBANKS of 
Stillwater, OK. Leola SIMS CHOATE of Enid, OK. Mrs. Sandra SIMS 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.
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