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Fort Cobb, Oklahoma August 1962 May 20, 1885 ~ August 29, 1962 Services for Lafayette "Fate" Adkins, retired farmer of 405 E. Broadway, will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Church of the Nazarene. Adkins in ill health for the past 3½ years, died August 29 in Western State Hospital. Rev. John Gale, Choctaw, will officiate at the services. He will be assisted by Rev. Bob Williams, Carnegie and Rev. LaVern Day, Anadarko. Burial will be in Anadarko's Memory Lane Cemetery under direction of Fort Cobb Funeral Home. Adkins was born May 20, 1885, at Hico, Texas. He was married on November 30, 1906, to Vera McCullough at Carter, Oklahoma. The couple lived in Washita County for 25 years before coming to Caddo County in 1952. A member of the Nazarene church at Carnegie. Adkins was preceded in death by a daughter in infancy. Survivors are his widow, of the home; three sons, Floyd L. Adkins, Riverside, California; Virgil O. Adkins, Oakdale, California, and William E. Adkins, Albuquerque, New Mexico; one daughter, Mrs. Leona Melburn, Pauls Valley; one brother, Arch Adkins, Canute, Oklahoma, ten grandchildren and twelve great grandchildren. |
Anadarko, Oklahoma April 1981 February 7, 1892 ~ April 29, 1981 Services for Verna E. Adkins, 89, of 405 E. Broadway will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Nazarene Church with the Rev. Paul Danner, pastor, officiating. Mrs. Adkins, a housewife died Wednesday at the Anadarko Municipal Hospital. She was born February 7, 1892 in Davenport, Iowa and came to Oklahoma in 1902. She and Lafayette Adkins were married November 30, 1906 in Carter. He died August 29, 1962. A former resident of the Burns Flat community, Mrs. Adkins had lived in Anadarko since 1952. Survivors include a daughter, Leona Milburn of Muskogee; two sons, Floyd of Modesto, California and William of Albuquerque, New Mexico; a sister, Vera Roedl of Wichita, Kansas; eight grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren. Burial will be in memory Lane Cemetery under the direction of the Smith Funeral Chapel. |
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