Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. from the Forrest Chapel Methodist Church with the Rev. Harold Wright and the Rev. Leon Sellers conducting.
Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery with Peck Funeral Home directing.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Artie Anders, Pensacola, Fla.; Mrs. Myrtle Terry, Decatur; Mrs. Johnnie McDaniel, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Mrs. Edith Wiggins, Hartselle; Mrs. Freda Blankenship, Detroit, Mich.; three sons, Coy Atkins, Wilson Atkins, Yuel Atkins, all of Hartselle; two brothers, Johnny Rodgers, Hartselle; Willy Rodgers, Birmingham; 17 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Active pallbearers are O. B. Wise, Billy Hargrove, Donald Blankenship, Loy Petty, Billy Hampton and Serbern Garner.
Honorary pallbearers will be nephews.
Published in the Decatur Daily, August 21, 1962
Funeral services will be Wednesday at 2 p.m. from the Forrest Chapel Methodist Church with the Rev. Harold Wright and the Rev. Leon Sellers conducting.
Burial will be in the adjoining cemetery with Peck Funeral Home directing.
Survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Artie Anders, Pensacola, Fla.; Mrs. Myrtle Terry, Decatur; Mrs. Johnnie McDaniel, Oak Ridge, Tenn.; Mrs. Edith Wiggins, Hartselle; Mrs. Freda Blankenship, Detroit, Mich.; three sons, Coy Atkins, Wilson Atkins, Yuel Atkins, all of Hartselle; two brothers, Johnny Rodgers, Hartselle; Willy Rodgers, Birmingham; 17 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
Active pallbearers are O. B. Wise, Billy Hargrove, Donald Blankenship, Loy Petty, Billy Hampton and Serbern Garner.
Honorary pallbearers will be nephews.
Published in the Decatur Daily, August 21, 1962
Family Members
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Ettie Belle Atkins
1898–1901
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Artie L. Atkins Anders
1901–1979
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William Coy Atkins
1903–1981
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Myrtie Atkins Humphrey
1908–1981
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Gordon W. Atkins
1912–1912
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Grace E. Atkins
1913–1930
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Verma A Atkins McDaniel
1914–2004
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Woodrow Wilson Atkins
1916–1996
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Robert Yuel Atkins
1919–1988
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Mary Edith Atkins Wiggins
1921–2007
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Gordon Fredia Atkins Blankenship
1925–1993
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