All 5 Adkins family members initially reported in Bell cemetery are related. Each memorial originally had reported the decedent's birth year in the year of death. Walter & Edna are parents of Ken, Ella is Ken's wife and Dianna is daughter of Ken & Ella. Walter & Edna are buried in Grandview cemetery, Grandview, IL, per their obits. Memorials for Walter & Edna that were originally shown in Bell cemetery have been merged into their memorials from Grandview and contain the correct dates of birth and death.
son of
Walter Adrian Adkins
May 5, 1891--February 10, 1983
&
Edna Irene Bracken [Adkins]
July 24, 1905--September 6, 1983
date of birth from SS index and confirmed by census data, despite estimate of age in obit.
[per obits Walter & Edna are both interred in Grandview Cemetery, Grandview, IL, rather than in Bell cemetery]
married April 26, 1964, Charleston, IL
Ella Mae Strow [Adkins]
September 22, 1945--February 13, 2021
Child of Kenneth & Ella:
Dianna Lynn Adkins
April 6, 1967--August 16, 1967
Funeral service for "four month old daughter" who "was born April 6, 1967, in Charleston [IL]... The infant died Wednesday at Paris hospital."
Journal Gazette, Mattoon, IL, Thursday, August 17, 1967
∼Kenneth Eugene Adkins, 68, of Paris, Illinois, died at 9:38 p.m. Thursday (July 14, 2005) at Paris Community Hospital.
He was born April 2, 1937 in Charleston, Illinois, a son of Walter Adkins and Edna Bracken Adkins. He married Ella Strow in 1964; she survives.
Other survivors include daughters, Patricia Orris of Kansas, Illinois and Shirley Hale of Ashmore, Illinois and three grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, brother and sister.
Mr. Adkins had retired from Midwest Body Company as a painter.
Journal Gazette (Mattoon, IL) - Tuesday, July 19, 2005
son of
Walter Adrian Adkins
May 5, 1891--February 10, 1983
&
Edna Irene Bracken [Adkins]
July 24, 1905--September 6, 1983
date of birth from SS index and confirmed by census data, despite estimate of age in obit.
[per obits Walter & Edna are both interred in Grandview Cemetery, Grandview, IL, rather than in Bell cemetery]
married April 26, 1964, Charleston, IL
Ella Mae Strow [Adkins]
September 22, 1945--February 13, 2021
Child of Kenneth & Ella:
Dianna Lynn Adkins
April 6, 1967--August 16, 1967
Funeral service for "four month old daughter" who "was born April 6, 1967, in Charleston [IL]... The infant died Wednesday at Paris hospital."
Journal Gazette, Mattoon, IL, Thursday, August 17, 1967
∼Kenneth Eugene Adkins, 68, of Paris, Illinois, died at 9:38 p.m. Thursday (July 14, 2005) at Paris Community Hospital.
He was born April 2, 1937 in Charleston, Illinois, a son of Walter Adkins and Edna Bracken Adkins. He married Ella Strow in 1964; she survives.
Other survivors include daughters, Patricia Orris of Kansas, Illinois and Shirley Hale of Ashmore, Illinois and three grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, brother and sister.
Mr. Adkins had retired from Midwest Body Company as a painter.
Journal Gazette (Mattoon, IL) - Tuesday, July 19, 2005
All 5 Adkins family members initially reported in Bell cemetery are related. Each memorial originally had reported the decedent's birth year in the year of death. Walter & Edna are parents of Ken, Ella is Ken's wife and Dianna is daughter of Ken & Ella. Walter & Edna are buried in Grandview cemetery, Grandview, IL, per their obits. Memorials for Walter & Edna that were originally shown in Bell cemetery have been merged into their memorials from Grandview and contain the correct dates of birth and death.
son of
Walter Adrian Adkins
May 5, 1891--February 10, 1983
&
Edna Irene Bracken [Adkins]
July 24, 1905--September 6, 1983
date of birth from SS index and confirmed by census data, despite estimate of age in obit.
[per obits Walter & Edna are both interred in Grandview Cemetery, Grandview, IL, rather than in Bell cemetery]
married April 26, 1964, Charleston, IL
Ella Mae Strow [Adkins]
September 22, 1945--February 13, 2021
Child of Kenneth & Ella:
Dianna Lynn Adkins
April 6, 1967--August 16, 1967
Funeral service for "four month old daughter" who "was born April 6, 1967, in Charleston [IL]... The infant died Wednesday at Paris hospital."
Journal Gazette, Mattoon, IL, Thursday, August 17, 1967
∼Kenneth Eugene Adkins, 68, of Paris, Illinois, died at 9:38 p.m. Thursday (July 14, 2005) at Paris Community Hospital.
He was born April 2, 1937 in Charleston, Illinois, a son of Walter Adkins and Edna Bracken Adkins. He married Ella Strow in 1964; she survives.
Other survivors include daughters, Patricia Orris of Kansas, Illinois and Shirley Hale of Ashmore, Illinois and three grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, brother and sister.
Mr. Adkins had retired from Midwest Body Company as a painter.
Journal Gazette (Mattoon, IL) - Tuesday, July 19, 2005
son of
Walter Adrian Adkins
May 5, 1891--February 10, 1983
&
Edna Irene Bracken [Adkins]
July 24, 1905--September 6, 1983
date of birth from SS index and confirmed by census data, despite estimate of age in obit.
[per obits Walter & Edna are both interred in Grandview Cemetery, Grandview, IL, rather than in Bell cemetery]
married April 26, 1964, Charleston, IL
Ella Mae Strow [Adkins]
September 22, 1945--February 13, 2021
Child of Kenneth & Ella:
Dianna Lynn Adkins
April 6, 1967--August 16, 1967
Funeral service for "four month old daughter" who "was born April 6, 1967, in Charleston [IL]... The infant died Wednesday at Paris hospital."
Journal Gazette, Mattoon, IL, Thursday, August 17, 1967
∼Kenneth Eugene Adkins, 68, of Paris, Illinois, died at 9:38 p.m. Thursday (July 14, 2005) at Paris Community Hospital.
He was born April 2, 1937 in Charleston, Illinois, a son of Walter Adkins and Edna Bracken Adkins. He married Ella Strow in 1964; she survives.
Other survivors include daughters, Patricia Orris of Kansas, Illinois and Shirley Hale of Ashmore, Illinois and three grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, brother and sister.
Mr. Adkins had retired from Midwest Body Company as a painter.
Journal Gazette (Mattoon, IL) - Tuesday, July 19, 2005
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