Mrs. Eleanor Bowden Atkins of Greensboro went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on Sunday, May 26, 2019 at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital.
Eleanor Atkins was a woman of great faith and served the Lord with all her heart. Her faith never wavered during her eighty-three years of life. She raised her eight children in the ways of the Christian faith that she learned at Pleasant Grove Church. She taught Sunday school for fifty years where she taught others about Jesus.
Eleanor's other passion was trying to save babies from abortion, and she served as North Carolina Right to Life president for a season.
Eleanor was born November 10, 1935 to Grady and Zelda Bowden of Summerfield. She was married to her one and only love, Jack Atkins, who preceded her in death in 2004, just a week shy of fifty years together.
She was welcomed to her new Heavenly home by her husband, Jack; son, Barry; parents, Zelda and Grady Bowden; sisters, Anne Batchelor and Doris Bowden; and her father and mother-in-law, Friel and Esther Atkins.
Eleanor was a very loving and kind mother and will be greatly missed by her seven children, Trish Hinshaw (Marcus), Diane Godfrey, Roland Atkins, Wendy Elks, Wanda Jackson, Cheryl Ryals (Tony), and Pam Mimms (Ronnie). Eleanor also left behind twenty-nine grandchildren, thirty-three great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson, all of whom she loved with her whole heart and never missed one of their birthdays! Her grandchildren absolutely adored their precious grandmother.
She is also survived by her sisters, Margaret and Ruth Bowden.
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Eleanor Atkins was a woman of great faith and served the Lord with all her heart. Her faith never wavered during her eighty-three years of life. She raised her eight children in the ways of the Christian faith that she learned at Pleasant Grove Church. She taught Sunday school for fifty years where she taught others about Jesus.
Eleanor's other passion was trying to save babies from abortion, and she served as North Carolina Right to Life president for a season.
Eleanor was born November 10, 1935 to Grady and Zelda Bowden of Summerfield. She was married to her one and only love, Jack Atkins, who preceded her in death in 2004, just a week shy of fifty years together.
She was welcomed to her new Heavenly home by her husband, Jack; son, Barry; parents, Zelda and Grady Bowden; sisters, Anne Batchelor and Doris Bowden; and her father and mother-in-law, Friel and Esther Atkins.
Eleanor was a very loving and kind mother and will be greatly missed by her seven children, Trish Hinshaw (Marcus), Diane Godfrey, Roland Atkins, Wendy Elks, Wanda Jackson, Cheryl Ryals (Tony), and Pam Mimms (Ronnie). Eleanor also left behind twenty-nine grandchildren, thirty-three great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson, all of whom she loved with her whole heart and never missed one of their birthdays! Her grandchildren absolutely adored their precious grandmother.
She is also survived by her sisters, Margaret and Ruth Bowden.
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Mrs. Eleanor Bowden Atkins of Greensboro went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on Sunday, May 26, 2019 at Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital.
Eleanor Atkins was a woman of great faith and served the Lord with all her heart. Her faith never wavered during her eighty-three years of life. She raised her eight children in the ways of the Christian faith that she learned at Pleasant Grove Church. She taught Sunday school for fifty years where she taught others about Jesus.
Eleanor's other passion was trying to save babies from abortion, and she served as North Carolina Right to Life president for a season.
Eleanor was born November 10, 1935 to Grady and Zelda Bowden of Summerfield. She was married to her one and only love, Jack Atkins, who preceded her in death in 2004, just a week shy of fifty years together.
She was welcomed to her new Heavenly home by her husband, Jack; son, Barry; parents, Zelda and Grady Bowden; sisters, Anne Batchelor and Doris Bowden; and her father and mother-in-law, Friel and Esther Atkins.
Eleanor was a very loving and kind mother and will be greatly missed by her seven children, Trish Hinshaw (Marcus), Diane Godfrey, Roland Atkins, Wendy Elks, Wanda Jackson, Cheryl Ryals (Tony), and Pam Mimms (Ronnie). Eleanor also left behind twenty-nine grandchildren, thirty-three great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson, all of whom she loved with her whole heart and never missed one of their birthdays! Her grandchildren absolutely adored their precious grandmother.
She is also survived by her sisters, Margaret and Ruth Bowden.
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Eleanor Atkins was a woman of great faith and served the Lord with all her heart. Her faith never wavered during her eighty-three years of life. She raised her eight children in the ways of the Christian faith that she learned at Pleasant Grove Church. She taught Sunday school for fifty years where she taught others about Jesus.
Eleanor's other passion was trying to save babies from abortion, and she served as North Carolina Right to Life president for a season.
Eleanor was born November 10, 1935 to Grady and Zelda Bowden of Summerfield. She was married to her one and only love, Jack Atkins, who preceded her in death in 2004, just a week shy of fifty years together.
She was welcomed to her new Heavenly home by her husband, Jack; son, Barry; parents, Zelda and Grady Bowden; sisters, Anne Batchelor and Doris Bowden; and her father and mother-in-law, Friel and Esther Atkins.
Eleanor was a very loving and kind mother and will be greatly missed by her seven children, Trish Hinshaw (Marcus), Diane Godfrey, Roland Atkins, Wendy Elks, Wanda Jackson, Cheryl Ryals (Tony), and Pam Mimms (Ronnie). Eleanor also left behind twenty-nine grandchildren, thirty-three great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandson, all of whom she loved with her whole heart and never missed one of their birthdays! Her grandchildren absolutely adored their precious grandmother.
She is also survived by her sisters, Margaret and Ruth Bowden.
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