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Submitted: 10/1/21 • Approved: 10/1/21 • Last Updated: 10/4/21 • R460286-G460285-S3
Thurman W.
February 21, 1905-April 29, 1997
Jerome Stanley
August 4, 1910-January 27, 1988
*Photo/information courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Thurman
Thurman W. Adkins, 92 To Be Buried Here Thurs.
Thurman W. Adkins, a longtime lawyer and former state legislator, died Tuesday, April 29, 1997. He was 92.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First United Methodist Church of Shamrock with the Rev. Ken Cole, pastor, and the Rev. Julie Adkins of Austin officiating. Burial will be in the Wheeler Cemetery at Wheeler by Wright Funeral Directors.
Mr. Adkins was born in Lafayette, Upshur County. He entered North Texas Teacher's College at the age of 16. He received his bachelor of science degree from North Texas State University at Denton four years later.
He taught school for a couple of years before entering the University of Texas Law School. During his first year of law school, he ran for the state Legislature in his district. At the age of 23, he became the youngest member of the Legislature. He served two terms.
While in law school, Mr. Adkins also served on the Texas Law Review and was a member of the Tejas Club, an honorary law fraternity. He completed law school in 1930, moved to Wheeler in 1932 and formed a partnership with R.H. Forrester. He served as the Wheeler County attorney for four years.
He married Jerome S. Stanley in 1933 at Sayre, Okla. She died in 1988.
Mr. Adkins moved to McLean in 1935 and to Shamrock in 1938. He formed a partnership with H.B. Hill and served as city attorney for about 10 years. He then moved his family to a cattle ranch in South Dakota, where they lived for a short time before moving back to Texas.
In 1952, he returned to Shamrock to reform the partnership with Mr Hill. After Mr. Hill's death, Mr. Adkins ran the law practice alone until 1979, when he formed a partnership with Jim Fling.
He retired in 1985 after practicing law for 65 years, spending 35 years of those years in Shamrock.
Mr. Adkins was a member of First United Methodist Church of Shamrock, the Shamrock Booster's Club, the Masonic Lodge and the Scottish Rite. He also was a member of Rotary International and had received the Paul Harris Fellow Award. He was a volunteer for the American Red Cross for many years.
Survivors include a son, Thurman J. Adkins of San Antonio; two daughters, Noel Boyd of Shamrock and Lynda Stephenson of Edmond, Okla.; and four grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be to First United Methodist Church Memorial Fund.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Volume 64, Number 21, Thursday, May 1, 1997, Page 1)
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Texas, U.S., Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Adkins
Birth Date: 21 Feb 1905
Gender: Male
Birth Place: La Fayette, Camp, Texas, USA
Father: Walter Adkins
Mother: Lillie Adkins
Mother Residence: La Fayette
U.S., Newspapers.com Marriage Index, 1800s-1999
Name: Mr. Thurmnn W. Adkins
Gender: Male
Employer: Forrester and Adkins
Marriage Date: May 1933
Marriage Place: Sayre , Okla .
Spouse: Jerome Stanley
U.S., World War II Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Thurman Walter Adkins
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 35
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 21 Feb 1905
Birth Place: Lafayette, Texas, USA
Residence Place: Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Registration Date: 16 Oct 1940
Registration Place: Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Employer: Self
Height: 5 11
Weight: 165
Complexion: Ruddy
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Next of Kin: Jerome Stanley Adkins
Household Members Age Relationship
Thurman Walter Adkins 35 Self (Head)
Jerome Stanley Adkins Wife
Texas, U.S., Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Thurman Adkins
Death Date: 29 Apr 1997
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Male
*Obituary Jerome
Jerome Stanley Adkins
SHAMROCK - Funeral services for Jerome Stanley Adkins, 77, are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at First United Methodist Church of Shamrock with the Rev. Todd Dyess, former pastor now of Spearman, assisted by the Rev Julie Adkins. Mrs. Adkins granddaughter and pastor of St. Mark's Presbyterian Church in San Angelo, and the Rev. Steve Rogers, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Richerson Funeral Home.
Mrs. Adkins died Wednesday.
She was a lifetime resident of Wheeler County, which her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J.E. Stanley, helped found. Her grandfather, Judge J.B. Reynolds, was the first practicing attorney in Wheeler County.
Mrs. Adkins received her degree from Texas Women's University in Denton and taught speech therapy in Wheeler County. She married Thurman W. Adkins in 1933. She was a member of First United Methodist Church and a former member of the Order of the Eastern Star and Atheneum Club.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Thurman J. of San Antonio; two daughters, Lynda Stephenson of Ada, Okla., and Noel Boyd of Shamrock; a sister, Samantha Parker of San Antonio; a brother, Thomas E. Stanley of Farmington, N.M.; and four grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to a favorite charity.
(Published in The Pampa News, Vol. 80, No. 254, Thursday, January 28, 1988, Page 2)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Jerome Adkins
Death Date: 27 Jan 1988
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Jerome S. Adkins
Last Residence:
79079 Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas, USA
BORN: 4 Aug 1910
Died: 27 Jan 1988
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