UNICOI COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Ross Adkins, Senior, 25 Mar 1998
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Ross Adkins, Senior

Mr. Ross Adkins, Senior, 89, of Onarga, Illinois died Wednesday, March 25,
1998 in the Fairbanks Memorial Hospital, Alaska, following a brief illness 
while visiting his son.

Mr. Adkins was a son of the late Samuel E. and Margaret Fender Adkins. He was
a Unioci County native, but had lived in Onarga, Illinois since 1947. He
served with the Civilian Conservation Corps from 1935 to 1937 in Unicoi County
and Smokemont, North Carolina. Mr. Adkins had been employed with the Southern
Pottery in Erwin from 1945 to 1947, Island Creek Coal Company, Bartley, West
Virginia for 19 and a half years, and Melind Company, Onarga, Illinois for 12
and a half years before retirement. He was a memebr of the Erwin Church of
God.

Other than his parents, he was preceded in death by three brothers and two
sisters. Survivors include his wife, Ruby Jane Renfor Adkins, Onagra; one son,
Ross Adkins, Faribanks, Alaska; daughter-in-law, Rachel Adkins, Fairbanks;
four daughters, Ella Reis, Champaign, Illinois, Barbara Gallegos, Long Beach,
California, Brenda Wilkins, Mooresville, Indiana, and Wanda Adkins, Onarga,
Illinois; sons-in-law, Roger Ries, Champaign, Henry Gallegos, Long Beach, and
Tom Wilkins, Mooresville; seven grandchildren; four great-grandchildren, and
several nieces and nephews. Mr. Adkins is interred at Evergreen Cemetery.