Obit of Eakins, Thomas James - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 9 Oct 2005 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Surnames: Eakins, Engel, Sutherlin Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/5YB.2ACE/6272 Services for Thomas James Eakins, 92, Lehigh, retired rancher were held at 11 a.m. Thursday in the Lehigh Baptist Church. The Rev. Lee R. Newberry Wardville, conducted the services and burial was in the Memorial Park, Oklahoma C ity Slater Funeral home of Coalgate was in charge of arrangements., Mr. Eazkins died suddenly at his home Monday. He was a native of Denton County, Texas and was born January 26, 1876. He had lived in Lehigh 21 years moving there from Hammon, Oklahoma in 1947. Mr. Eakins is survived by his wife, Mabel; three daughters, Ramona Eakins, San Francisco, Iris Engel, Fairfield, California, and Ran Sutherlin, Oklahoma City; five sons, Fred of Meade, Kansas, Tom, Belleville, Illinois, Ralph, Vietnam, Jack, Oklahoma City, and James, Midwest City; 14 grandchildren and one great grandchildren. Hammon Advocate, Hammon, OK -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html