Mrs. Margaret Dean Robinson Akin, 92, a longtime resident of the Hampshire Community and former County Commissioner, passed away Monday, December 20, 2004 in Covington, TN.
Funeral services for Mrs. Akin will be conducted Thursday, December 23, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Hampshire with Reverend Mike Gilstrap and W. M. Jaggers, III officiating. Burial will be in the Pisgah Cemetery.
The family will visit with friends Wednesday from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m. at the Williams Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant.
The Henderson, KY native was the daughter of the late Robert Lee and Beulah Katherine Cox Robinson. She was the widow of Thomas Howe Akin who preceded her in death in 1966. Mrs. Akin was a 1930 graduate of the Hay Long High School and attended Tennessee College for Women, now Belmont University and did graduate work at George Peabody College and M.T.S.U. She was a member of the Mt. Pleasant First Baptist Church, Virginia Mai Kittrell Circle of Kings Daughters and Sons, Delta Kappa Gamma Teachers Society and Maury County Retired Teachers Association.
Mrs. Akin served 12 years on the Maury County Commission from 1982 – 1994. In 1992 she received the good citizen award from the First Assembly of God. In 1993 she received the Liberty Bell award from the Maury County Bar Association. In 1996 she was selected as one of the ten outstanding women of the year in Tennessee. In 1997 the new addition to Hampshire was named for Mrs. Akin.
She is survived by a daughter, Katherine Akin Brewer and a son in law, Joel Wilhite Brewer of Munford, TN; a granddaughter, Margaret "Maggie" Remelle and a grandson, Joel W. Brewer, both of Munford, TN. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Gilbert and Francis Robinson.
Pallbearers will be Eddie Hickman, Douglas Garner, W.E. Walker Jr., A.C. Howell, Mac Whiteside, Bobby Lee Runions, W.M. Jaggers, Jr., Farris Grimes, Kenny Cecil and Ronald Baker.
Honorary pallbearers will be W.L. Whitlatch, John D. Gibson, Harold Hardison, Hardy Loyd, Richard Fly, Mike Kessler, Gene Ray Baxter, Ed Cox, Jack Craig, Billy Evans, Dr. Paul Sands, Douglas Burton, Frank Cathey, Sam D. Kennedy, Richard Wilkes, Sr., Rev. Charles Blythe, Clyde Farris and past and present members of the Maury County Commission and Maury County Retired Teachers Association..
Memorials may be made to the Hampshire United Methodist Church, Pisgah Cemetery Memorial Association, c/o Mrs. Bill Walker or to Jimmy W. Akin, Maury County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Funeral services for Mrs. Akin will be conducted Thursday, December 23, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Hampshire with Reverend Mike Gilstrap and W. M. Jaggers, III officiating. Burial will be in the Pisgah Cemetery.
The family will visit with friends Wednesday from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m. at the Williams Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant.
The Henderson, KY native was the daughter of the late Robert Lee and Beulah Katherine Cox Robinson. She was the widow of Thomas Howe Akin who preceded her in death in 1966. Mrs. Akin was a 1930 graduate of the Hay Long High School and attended Tennessee College for Women, now Belmont University and did graduate work at George Peabody College and M.T.S.U. She was a member of the Mt. Pleasant First Baptist Church, Virginia Mai Kittrell Circle of Kings Daughters and Sons, Delta Kappa Gamma Teachers Society and Maury County Retired Teachers Association.
Mrs. Akin served 12 years on the Maury County Commission from 1982 – 1994. In 1992 she received the good citizen award from the First Assembly of God. In 1993 she received the Liberty Bell award from the Maury County Bar Association. In 1996 she was selected as one of the ten outstanding women of the year in Tennessee. In 1997 the new addition to Hampshire was named for Mrs. Akin.
She is survived by a daughter, Katherine Akin Brewer and a son in law, Joel Wilhite Brewer of Munford, TN; a granddaughter, Margaret "Maggie" Remelle and a grandson, Joel W. Brewer, both of Munford, TN. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Gilbert and Francis Robinson.
Pallbearers will be Eddie Hickman, Douglas Garner, W.E. Walker Jr., A.C. Howell, Mac Whiteside, Bobby Lee Runions, W.M. Jaggers, Jr., Farris Grimes, Kenny Cecil and Ronald Baker.
Honorary pallbearers will be W.L. Whitlatch, John D. Gibson, Harold Hardison, Hardy Loyd, Richard Fly, Mike Kessler, Gene Ray Baxter, Ed Cox, Jack Craig, Billy Evans, Dr. Paul Sands, Douglas Burton, Frank Cathey, Sam D. Kennedy, Richard Wilkes, Sr., Rev. Charles Blythe, Clyde Farris and past and present members of the Maury County Commission and Maury County Retired Teachers Association..
Memorials may be made to the Hampshire United Methodist Church, Pisgah Cemetery Memorial Association, c/o Mrs. Bill Walker or to Jimmy W. Akin, Maury County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Mrs. Margaret Dean Robinson Akin, 92, a longtime resident of the Hampshire Community and former County Commissioner, passed away Monday, December 20, 2004 in Covington, TN.
Funeral services for Mrs. Akin will be conducted Thursday, December 23, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Hampshire with Reverend Mike Gilstrap and W. M. Jaggers, III officiating. Burial will be in the Pisgah Cemetery.
The family will visit with friends Wednesday from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m. at the Williams Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant.
The Henderson, KY native was the daughter of the late Robert Lee and Beulah Katherine Cox Robinson. She was the widow of Thomas Howe Akin who preceded her in death in 1966. Mrs. Akin was a 1930 graduate of the Hay Long High School and attended Tennessee College for Women, now Belmont University and did graduate work at George Peabody College and M.T.S.U. She was a member of the Mt. Pleasant First Baptist Church, Virginia Mai Kittrell Circle of Kings Daughters and Sons, Delta Kappa Gamma Teachers Society and Maury County Retired Teachers Association.
Mrs. Akin served 12 years on the Maury County Commission from 1982 – 1994. In 1992 she received the good citizen award from the First Assembly of God. In 1993 she received the Liberty Bell award from the Maury County Bar Association. In 1996 she was selected as one of the ten outstanding women of the year in Tennessee. In 1997 the new addition to Hampshire was named for Mrs. Akin.
She is survived by a daughter, Katherine Akin Brewer and a son in law, Joel Wilhite Brewer of Munford, TN; a granddaughter, Margaret "Maggie" Remelle and a grandson, Joel W. Brewer, both of Munford, TN. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Gilbert and Francis Robinson.
Pallbearers will be Eddie Hickman, Douglas Garner, W.E. Walker Jr., A.C. Howell, Mac Whiteside, Bobby Lee Runions, W.M. Jaggers, Jr., Farris Grimes, Kenny Cecil and Ronald Baker.
Honorary pallbearers will be W.L. Whitlatch, John D. Gibson, Harold Hardison, Hardy Loyd, Richard Fly, Mike Kessler, Gene Ray Baxter, Ed Cox, Jack Craig, Billy Evans, Dr. Paul Sands, Douglas Burton, Frank Cathey, Sam D. Kennedy, Richard Wilkes, Sr., Rev. Charles Blythe, Clyde Farris and past and present members of the Maury County Commission and Maury County Retired Teachers Association..
Memorials may be made to the Hampshire United Methodist Church, Pisgah Cemetery Memorial Association, c/o Mrs. Bill Walker or to Jimmy W. Akin, Maury County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
Funeral services for Mrs. Akin will be conducted Thursday, December 23, 2004 at 10:00 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Hampshire with Reverend Mike Gilstrap and W. M. Jaggers, III officiating. Burial will be in the Pisgah Cemetery.
The family will visit with friends Wednesday from 5:00 until 8:00 p.m. at the Williams Funeral Home in Mt. Pleasant.
The Henderson, KY native was the daughter of the late Robert Lee and Beulah Katherine Cox Robinson. She was the widow of Thomas Howe Akin who preceded her in death in 1966. Mrs. Akin was a 1930 graduate of the Hay Long High School and attended Tennessee College for Women, now Belmont University and did graduate work at George Peabody College and M.T.S.U. She was a member of the Mt. Pleasant First Baptist Church, Virginia Mai Kittrell Circle of Kings Daughters and Sons, Delta Kappa Gamma Teachers Society and Maury County Retired Teachers Association.
Mrs. Akin served 12 years on the Maury County Commission from 1982 – 1994. In 1992 she received the good citizen award from the First Assembly of God. In 1993 she received the Liberty Bell award from the Maury County Bar Association. In 1996 she was selected as one of the ten outstanding women of the year in Tennessee. In 1997 the new addition to Hampshire was named for Mrs. Akin.
She is survived by a daughter, Katherine Akin Brewer and a son in law, Joel Wilhite Brewer of Munford, TN; a granddaughter, Margaret "Maggie" Remelle and a grandson, Joel W. Brewer, both of Munford, TN. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Gilbert and Francis Robinson.
Pallbearers will be Eddie Hickman, Douglas Garner, W.E. Walker Jr., A.C. Howell, Mac Whiteside, Bobby Lee Runions, W.M. Jaggers, Jr., Farris Grimes, Kenny Cecil and Ronald Baker.
Honorary pallbearers will be W.L. Whitlatch, John D. Gibson, Harold Hardison, Hardy Loyd, Richard Fly, Mike Kessler, Gene Ray Baxter, Ed Cox, Jack Craig, Billy Evans, Dr. Paul Sands, Douglas Burton, Frank Cathey, Sam D. Kennedy, Richard Wilkes, Sr., Rev. Charles Blythe, Clyde Farris and past and present members of the Maury County Commission and Maury County Retired Teachers Association..
Memorials may be made to the Hampshire United Methodist Church, Pisgah Cemetery Memorial Association, c/o Mrs. Bill Walker or to Jimmy W. Akin, Maury County Chapter of Habitat for Humanity.
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MARGARET DEAN
ROBINSON AKIN
SEPT. 26, 1912
APRIL 26, 2005
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