Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Fairfield Recorder newspaper
March 2008


Virginia (Martin) Adkisson

Funeral services were held last week for Virginia Martin Adkisson, 82, of 
Buffalo who died, Sunday, March 16.

Mrs. Adkisson was born in Martintown on August 10, 1925 to parents Noah and 
Mary Ann Martin. She graduated from Buffalo high school in 1942 and was 
employed with Southwestern Bell Telephone Company in Huntsville and Dallas 
until 1956. In 1949, on Sept. 3, she married James Adkisson of Jewett. Mrs. 
Adkisson was a member of the First Baptist Church of Buffalo and enjoyed 
reading and shopping for antiques.

Services were held at 2 p.m. at the Memorial Funeral Home Chapel in Buffalo 
with Mike Gentry officiating.

Interment followed at Buffalo Cemetery.

Mrs. Adkisson is survived by husband James "Gene" Adkisson of Buffalo; daughter
Gena Turner and husband Gary of Georgetown; granddaughter Sandy Gentry and 
husband Mike of Salado; sister Dixie Woodell and husband Gene of Bryan; sister-
in-law Virginia Lee Martin of Humble; nephews Randy Martin and wife Melinda of
Humble, Gene Martin Woodell of Bryan, and John Royal Woodell of Bryan; great 
nephew Matthew Martin of Humble; great niece Lorie Kay Lewis and husband Rusty
of Nederland; great great nephews Alec and Noah Lewis of Nederland.

She is preceded in death by parents Noah and Mary Ann Martin and brother Royce
Martin.

Arrangements by Memorial Funeral Home of Buffalo.