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DATE: MONDAY, November 22, 1993                   TAG: 9311220170
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MCCOY                                LENGTH: Short


OBIT ADKINS, FRANK SPENCER

ADKINS, Frank Spencer, 84, of McCoy, died Sunday, November 21, 1993 at his home. Mr. Adkins was born at Longshop on July 10, 1909, to the late Addie Ora and Nina Lou Graves Adkins. He was retired from R.A.A.P. with 26 years of service. Surviving are his wife of 65 years, Bertha Smith Adkins; eight sons and five daughters-in-law, Ernest and Helen Adkins and Safford Adkins, Christiansburg, Frank B. and Martha Adkins of New Mexico, Clarence and Mildred Adkins, Salem, Robert and Dianne Adkins and Russell Adkins of Florida, John and Kathy Adkins of California, Fred Adkins of North Carolina; three daughters and sons-in-law, Barbara and Connie Croy and Florence and Dale Sheppard, Salem, Hazel and Don Bell of North Carolina; one brother, Arvil Adkins, Christiansburg; two sisters, Lorena Sink, Chesapeake, Emma Homner of Maryland; 32 grandchildren; 39 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted 2 p.m. Wednesday, November 24,, 1993, at McCoy Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Cecil Frazier officiating. The family will receive friends Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the funeral home.



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