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Cecil Earl Eakins

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Cecil Earl Eakins

Birth
Holcomb, Dunklin County, Missouri, USA
Death
22 Jul 1997 (aged 73)
Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA
Burial
Cape Girardeau, Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Cecil Eakins

Southeast Missourian Newspaper July 23, 1997

Cecil Earl Eakins, 73, 1507 N. Henderson, died Tuesday, July 22, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born September 5, 1923, at Holcomb, son of Edward and Zelma Summers Eakins. He and Margie L. Casteel were married March 31, 1943, at Jackson.

Eakins owned and operated Eakins Heating and Air Conditioning 35 years. He was a member of Evangelical United Church of Christ, Disabled American Veterans, VFW and American Legion. He served with the U.S. Army in the European Theater during World War II.

Survivors include his wife: three daughters, Saundra Draper, Delores Enderle and LaDonna Ruebel, all of Cape Girardeau: two brothers, Claude Eakins of Janesville, Wisconsin, and Scott Eakins Grizzel of Little Rock, Arkansas: six sisters, Erma Ellinger of Scott City, Vergie Kies of Cape Girardeau, Hazel Hennecke and Rosie Dreyer of Jackson, Oma Clark of Illinois, Louella Figel of Conway, Arkansas; six grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. Thursday.

Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the chapel, with the Rev. Ernest Jordan officiating. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Mausoleum, with services by VFW Post 3838.
Cecil Eakins

Southeast Missourian Newspaper July 23, 1997

Cecil Earl Eakins, 73, 1507 N. Henderson, died Tuesday, July 22, 1997, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.

He was born September 5, 1923, at Holcomb, son of Edward and Zelma Summers Eakins. He and Margie L. Casteel were married March 31, 1943, at Jackson.

Eakins owned and operated Eakins Heating and Air Conditioning 35 years. He was a member of Evangelical United Church of Christ, Disabled American Veterans, VFW and American Legion. He served with the U.S. Army in the European Theater during World War II.

Survivors include his wife: three daughters, Saundra Draper, Delores Enderle and LaDonna Ruebel, all of Cape Girardeau: two brothers, Claude Eakins of Janesville, Wisconsin, and Scott Eakins Grizzel of Little Rock, Arkansas: six sisters, Erma Ellinger of Scott City, Vergie Kies of Cape Girardeau, Hazel Hennecke and Rosie Dreyer of Jackson, Oma Clark of Illinois, Louella Figel of Conway, Arkansas; six grandchildren, and a great-grandchild.

Friends may call at Ford and Sons Mount Auburn Chapel from 4-8 p.m. Thursday.

Funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Friday at the chapel, with the Rev. Ernest Jordan officiating. Entombment will be in Memorial Park Mausoleum, with services by VFW Post 3838.


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