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James Wendell Adkins[1, 2]

Male 1941 - 2009  (68 years)


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  • Name James Wendell Adkins 
    Born 3 Feb 1941  Henry County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died 25 May 2009  Martinsville, Henry Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Buried Mount Hermon Church of the Brethren Cemetery Bassett, VA Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I14800  My Reynolds Line
    Last Modified 7 Nov 2015 

    Father Thomas Samuel Adkins,   b. Abt 1895, Henry County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1963, Henry Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 68 years) 
    Mother Mary Lee Ingram,   b. 1898, Henry County, Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1961, Henry Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 63 years) 
    Married 12 Nov 1916  Henry Co., Virginia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F5120  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S32] Find-A-Grave.com, http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=38760455.
      Parents:
      Thomas Samuel Adkins (1889 - 1963)
      Mary Lee Ingram Adkins (1897 - 1961)
      Siblings:
      Virginia Lucille Adkins Wright (1923 - 2002)
      Thomas Glenwood Adkins (1926 - 1954)
      Gene Maxwell Adkins (1929 - 1982)
      James Wendell Adkins (1941 - 2009)
      A graveside service for James Wendell Adkins, 68, of Rockshire Drive, Martinsville, who died May 25, 2009, at Memorial Hospital, will be at 1 p.m. today at Mount Hermon Church of the Brethren cemetery in Bassett. Minister Lawrence Harris will officiate.
      The family will receive friends at the home.
      He was born in Henry County on Feb. 3, 1941, to Thomas Adkins and Mary Ingram Adkins. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by three sisters, Frances Mason, Lucille Wright and Inez Via; and four brothers, Ralph Adkins, Thomas Adkins, Gene Adkins and Bobby Adkins.
      Adkins was owner/operator of an auto body shop. He served in the Army, and he was a member of Mount Hermon Church of the Brethren.
      Surviving are his wife, Carolyn Adkins of the home; a stepson, Tim Funderburk of Cookeville, Tenn.; two sisters, Nancy A. Wyatt of Collinsville and Mary Jane Hall of Fieldale; and three stepgrandchildren

    2. [S48] Ancestry Link, http://person.ancestry.com/tree/9397185/person/24447684277/story.
      James Wendell was born on February 3, 1941, in Henry County, Virginia