Mrs. J. R. Akers Dies Of Illness; Rites Set Sunday<\/b><\/p>\n
Mrs. Lucy Ann Prudence Aker<\/strong>s, 81, widow of J. R. Akers<\/strong>, prominent Centertown citizen for a number of years, died at the Akers home in Centertown Tuesday evening at 9:30 o’clock, following an illness of several years.\u00a0 Funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock, at the Bates Hill Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Rev. J.E.\u00a0 Powers<\/strong> of Manchester will officiate and burial will be in the Centertown cemetery.\u00a0 Mrs. Akers was a native and lifelong resident of Warren county, born December 9, 1870. She was a daughter of James Silas Lance<\/strong> and Maria Elizabeth Bates Lance<\/strong> and she had spent most of her life in the Centertown community. Her husband was for a number of years prominently identified with the civic and political life of his community and Warren county.\u00a0 He died several years ago. Mrs. Akers was a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.\u00a0 She is survived by four sons, W.S. Akers<\/strong> and Lorenza Akers<\/strong>, Centertown, Ross Akers<\/strong>, Princeton, Ky., and Eula Akers<\/strong>, Oxford, Calif.; four daughters, Mrs. J. Burr Wilson<\/strong>, Phoenix, Ariz., Mrs. S.F. Bratcher<\/strong> and Mrs. Alton Davenport<\/strong>, Centertown, and Miss Lona Akers<\/strong>, who made her home with her mother at Centertown; one brother, J.B. Lance<\/strong>, Jonesboro, Ark., and one sister, Mrs. Matilda Michael<\/strong>, Centertown.<\/p>\n Mrs. J. R. Akers Dies Of Illness; Rites Set Sunday Mrs. Lucy Ann Prudence Akers, 81, widow of J. R. Akers, prominent Centertown citizen for a number of years, died at the Akers home in Centertown Tuesday evening at 9:30 …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[50,54,55,52,56,51,53],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries","tag-akers","tag-bratcher","tag-davenport","tag-lance","tag-michael","tag-powers","tag-wilson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions\/261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/warren\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n[Contributor:\u00a0 Maxine Reggio, 2000]<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"