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Submitted: 12/10/20 • Approved: 12/10/20 • Last Updated: 12/13/20 • R370859-G370858-S3
Carl G.
February 13, 1911-May 11, 1964
Otha M.
December 16, 1916-February 25, 2001
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*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary for Carl
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Carl Adkins
Death Date: 11 May 1964
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Carl G Adkins
Birth Date: 13 Feb 1911
Birth Place: Texas
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: Fred B Adkins
Mother: Mattie Lewis
Age at Death: 53
Death Date: 11 May 1964
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
Carl G. Adkins, 53, 1108 Andress, a resident here 22 years was dead on arrival at 4:35 p.m. Monday at North Plains Hospital after he was stricken at his job with Wes-Tex Construction Co.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Fellowship Baptist Church, the Rev. Bill Frerking, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Ed Brown, Funeral Directors.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Otha Adkins; two sons, Kenneth of the home and Carvon of Houston; a daughter, Mrs. Barbara Paradise, Homewood, Ala.; a sister, Mrs. Howard Holland, Kansas City; three brothers, Otis, Amarillo, Luther, Fritch and T.L., Littlefield; and seven grandchildren.
The body is in state at the Chapel of the Fountains.
Pallbearers will be Kenneth Simon, Roy Hinton, Verne Stewart, Rayburn Laughlin, Bill Forrest and F.B. Smith.
(Published in Borger News Herald, May 12, 1964)
*Obituary for Otha
BORGER - Otha Adkins Rakes, 84, died Sunday, Feb. 25, 2001.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today in the Bell Avenue Chapel of Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors, 5400 Bell St., in Amarillo, with the Rev. Dale Bigham, pastor of Arden Road Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Westlawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Fritch.
Mrs. Rakes was born in Hedley. She attended Bible Baptist College in Springfield, Mo. A longtime Borger resident, she was a member of Arden Road Baptist Church, taught Sunday school, sang in the choir, and was a member of the senior adults Sunday school class.
She married Carl Adkins in 1932 at Hollis, Okla. He died in 1964. She married Glen F. Rakes in 1965. He died in 1993.
Survivors include two sons, Carvan Adkins of Austin and Kenneth Adkins of Amarillo; a daughter, Barbara Adkins Birt of Corpus Christi; a brother, Rex Lamberson of Amarillo; 14 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, Feb. 27, 2001)
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U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Otha M. Rakes
Last Residence:
79119 Amarillo, Randall, Texas, USA
BORN: 6 Dec 1916
Died: 25 Feb 2001
Contributed on 12/10/20 by neldapat
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