Willard Clyde Adkins Sr., 76, of 126 Midway Drive, Oliver Springs, died Thursday at his home after a lengthy illness.<\/p>\n
He was preceded in death by his parents, James T. and Donna Goins Adkins; a brother, John Adkins; and two sisters, Myrtle Blythe and Carrie Blankenship. He was born April 19, 1917, in Williamsburg, Ky.<\/p>\n
Mr. Adkins was a coal miner and had worked in the mines before retirement for 43 years. He was a member of the UMWA\u00a0Local 1569 of Middlesboro, Ky. Mr. Adkins was a member of the Mount Pisgah Baptist Church in Oliver Springs. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, gardening and gospel music and was known for helping others at any time.<\/p>\n
He had lived in Oliver Springs for 33 years.<\/p>\n
Survivors include his wife, Mable Henderson Adkins; six children, John C. Adkins of Williamsburg, Ky.; Willard C. Adkins Jr. and wife, Charlene of Coalfield; James E. Adkins and wife Rose Mary of Delaware; Bill H. Adkins and wife Carol of Oak Ridge; Harold D. Adkins and wife Sandra of Clinton; George R. Adkins and wife Linda of Oliver Springs; a foster son, Gentry D. Hunt and wife Ruby of Oliver Springs; 16 grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n
Services were held Friday in the chapel of Sharp Funeral Home with the Rev. Garvin Walls and the Rev. Steve McDonald officiating. Burial was Saturday at Anderson Memorial Gardens.<\/p>\n
Clinton Courier News, <\/em>26\/27 Sept 1993<\/p>\n [Courtesy of Brenda Foster]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Obituary of Willard Clyde Adkins, 1993: Willard Clyde Adkins Sr., 76, of 126 Midway Drive, Oliver Springs, died Thursday at his home after a lengthy illness. He was preceded in Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries-a-d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5005,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/andersoncounty\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}