OBITUARY:  Dave Adkins, April 1968, Coke County, TX

Copied from the Josephine Bird Collection, West Texas Collection, 
Angelo State University - 2 September 2003

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San Angelo Standard-Time, April 18, 1968

Adkins Funeral
	
Funeral services were held for to con- Dave Adkins, 70, Monday at 
9 a.m. in Grace Temple Baptist Church at Kermit. Burial was at 
5 p.m. in Robert Lee cemetery, directed by Cooper Funeral Chapel and 
assisted by Williams Funeral Home of Robert Lee.
	
Mr. Adkins died Friday in the Wink Nursing Home following a long 
illness.
	
He was born Feb. 4, 1998 in Sanco to pioneer parents, the late Mr.
and Mrs. Tom Adkins. He married Susie Barrnett Dec. 25, 1919 in 
Robert Lee. She died June 29, 1953. He was married to Veda Earls 
July 7, 1966 in Kermit.
	
Mr. Adkins was a constable and had lived in Kermit for 17 years, 
after moving from Robert Lee in 1951. He was a Baptist.
	
Survivors include his wife, three sons, Woodson of Midland, J. D. 
of Christoval and Neal of Odessa; two daughters, Mrs, E. R. Buford 
of Odessa and Mrs. Sue Ammons of San Antonio,; a stepdaughter, 
Mrs. Jim Smith of Alvin; two brothers, Jack Adkins of Gravetit, 
Ark., and James Adkins of Ohio; two sisters, Mrs. Ozella Harris 
of Ohio and Mrs. Joella Lackey of Las Cruces, N. M.; 17 
grandchildren and three great grandchildren.		


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in the Coke County TXGenWeb Archives.