Frances J. Haire Adkins

ADKINS, ANTLE, COX, HAIRE

Posted By: Dotty Cox Woodruff (email)
Date: 1/5/2009 at 22:58:15

(Taken from the Times Republican, August 28, 2008.)

Frances J. Adkins, 85, a resident of The Embers in Marshalltown, died August 26, 2008, at Marshalltown Medical & Surgical Center.

Funeral services celebrating her life will be 10:30 a.m. Friday at Mitchell Family Funeral Home in Marshalltown. She will be laid to rest in Rose Hill Memorial Gardens. Friends may call at Mitchell Family Funeral Home from 5 to 7 p.m. on Thursday. Memorials may be directed to the family. For condolences, visit www.mitchellfh.com Mitchell Family Funeral Home is caring for Frances and her family.

Frances was born on July 8, 1923, the youngest of four daughters of Joseph Sylvester Haire & Eva (Folger) Haire. She was raised in Marshalltown, attended Franklin Elementary School and graduated from Marshalltown High School in 1941. She worked briefly at Fred L. Ward Lumber, Nash Finch and Fishers. On Nov. 3, 1946, she married William Calvin Adkins in Altoona. Bill and Frances moved to the Gilman area in 1956, where they raised their 5 children. Frances moved back to Marshalltown in 1995, and she has been living at The Embers since 2006.

Frances and Bill were avid square dancers and members of several square dancing clubs. She attended Gilman Methodist Church while living there, and in recent years attended Central Christian Church.

Frances is survived by her 3 daughters, Joyce (Dale) Gericke and Patricia (Carroll) Krough, all of Montour and Kathleen (Larry) Angove of Traverse City, Michigan; twin sons, Donald Adkins of Gilman and Daniel (Dana) Adkins of Horatio, Arkansas; her grandchildren, Danielle Wesselman, David Krough, Scott Angove, Blake Angove, Jenna Edmiaston, Nicole Adkins, Kelli Adkins and Mallery Adkins; her two great-grandchildren, Dylan Austin Wesselman and Ryley Jurgensen; her 2 sisters, Rachel (Paul) Williams of Marshalltown and Georgia Morris of Annapolis, Missouri; her in-laws, Mary Elsberry, Martha Hillman, Pat Adkins and Joann Wall, all of Marshalltown, Shirley Adkins of Waco, Texas and Fred Holthusen of Texas City, Texas; and a large number of nieces and nephews.

In death, she has rejoined her husband Bill, who died in 1993; her parents; her sister, Mary Gooding; brothers-in-law, Lloyd Gooding and Charles Morris; and in-laws, Doris and James Cagwin, Max and Marjorie Adkins, Wayne Elsberry, Gwen and Dayle Wall, Ray Adkins, Deb Adkins, Adeline Holthusen, Tom Adkins and Bud Wall.