GORDON E. ADKINS
FORMER RESTAURANT
OPERATOR, DIES
Gordon E. Adkins, aged 54, of 2317 South Maple Street, well-known Little Rock restaurant owner and operator, died Saturday at his home.
MR. Adkins has owned and operated restaurants all over Little Rock before retiring because of ill health in 1952. He was the owner of the Adkins Dinner Club on Roosevelt Road before selling about five years ago.
He had been in the restaurant business for more than 20 years and during World War II operated the restaurant at the Missouri-Pacific Depot.
Mr. Adkins was a member of the First Nazarene Church, a member of the American Legion and a veteran of World War I.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Wilma Kruse Adkins; a son, Gordon Hallman Adkins of Little Rock; three brothers, Grady Adkins and Virgil Adkins, both of Little Rock, and Delbert Adkins of Columbus, O., and a sister Mrs. A.J. Holland of Little Rock.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Ruebel Funeral Home by Rev. Mrs. Agnes White Diffee and Rev. Herston R. Holland.
Pallbearers will be T.H. Reamey, John Woodcock, Charles Ross, Alfred Boyd, Robert Adkins, Richard Wofford, C.J. Brriley and Frank Blackwood. Burial will be at Forest Hills Cemetery.
Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR)
Sun, Aug 5, 1856, Page 8
FORMER RESTAURANT
OPERATOR, DIES
Gordon E. Adkins, aged 54, of 2317 South Maple Street, well-known Little Rock restaurant owner and operator, died Saturday at his home.
MR. Adkins has owned and operated restaurants all over Little Rock before retiring because of ill health in 1952. He was the owner of the Adkins Dinner Club on Roosevelt Road before selling about five years ago.
He had been in the restaurant business for more than 20 years and during World War II operated the restaurant at the Missouri-Pacific Depot.
Mr. Adkins was a member of the First Nazarene Church, a member of the American Legion and a veteran of World War I.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Wilma Kruse Adkins; a son, Gordon Hallman Adkins of Little Rock; three brothers, Grady Adkins and Virgil Adkins, both of Little Rock, and Delbert Adkins of Columbus, O., and a sister Mrs. A.J. Holland of Little Rock.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Ruebel Funeral Home by Rev. Mrs. Agnes White Diffee and Rev. Herston R. Holland.
Pallbearers will be T.H. Reamey, John Woodcock, Charles Ross, Alfred Boyd, Robert Adkins, Richard Wofford, C.J. Brriley and Frank Blackwood. Burial will be at Forest Hills Cemetery.
Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR)
Sun, Aug 5, 1856, Page 8
GORDON E. ADKINS
FORMER RESTAURANT
OPERATOR, DIES
Gordon E. Adkins, aged 54, of 2317 South Maple Street, well-known Little Rock restaurant owner and operator, died Saturday at his home.
MR. Adkins has owned and operated restaurants all over Little Rock before retiring because of ill health in 1952. He was the owner of the Adkins Dinner Club on Roosevelt Road before selling about five years ago.
He had been in the restaurant business for more than 20 years and during World War II operated the restaurant at the Missouri-Pacific Depot.
Mr. Adkins was a member of the First Nazarene Church, a member of the American Legion and a veteran of World War I.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Wilma Kruse Adkins; a son, Gordon Hallman Adkins of Little Rock; three brothers, Grady Adkins and Virgil Adkins, both of Little Rock, and Delbert Adkins of Columbus, O., and a sister Mrs. A.J. Holland of Little Rock.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Ruebel Funeral Home by Rev. Mrs. Agnes White Diffee and Rev. Herston R. Holland.
Pallbearers will be T.H. Reamey, John Woodcock, Charles Ross, Alfred Boyd, Robert Adkins, Richard Wofford, C.J. Brriley and Frank Blackwood. Burial will be at Forest Hills Cemetery.
Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR)
Sun, Aug 5, 1856, Page 8
FORMER RESTAURANT
OPERATOR, DIES
Gordon E. Adkins, aged 54, of 2317 South Maple Street, well-known Little Rock restaurant owner and operator, died Saturday at his home.
MR. Adkins has owned and operated restaurants all over Little Rock before retiring because of ill health in 1952. He was the owner of the Adkins Dinner Club on Roosevelt Road before selling about five years ago.
He had been in the restaurant business for more than 20 years and during World War II operated the restaurant at the Missouri-Pacific Depot.
Mr. Adkins was a member of the First Nazarene Church, a member of the American Legion and a veteran of World War I.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Wilma Kruse Adkins; a son, Gordon Hallman Adkins of Little Rock; three brothers, Grady Adkins and Virgil Adkins, both of Little Rock, and Delbert Adkins of Columbus, O., and a sister Mrs. A.J. Holland of Little Rock.
Funeral will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Ruebel Funeral Home by Rev. Mrs. Agnes White Diffee and Rev. Herston R. Holland.
Pallbearers will be T.H. Reamey, John Woodcock, Charles Ross, Alfred Boyd, Robert Adkins, Richard Wofford, C.J. Brriley and Frank Blackwood. Burial will be at Forest Hills Cemetery.
Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock, AR)
Sun, Aug 5, 1856, Page 8
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