Glenn D. Adkins

Glenn D. Adkins, 90, Patriot, Ohio passed away on Thursday, February 23, 2012 in the Holzer Medical Center emergency room. He was born on October 31, 1921 in Wayne, WV, son of the late Grover E. and Nola McCoy Adkins. Glenn was a retired pipefitter with Local 521 Huntington, West Virginia where he had been a member for 50 plus years. He was a member of the Buena Vista Masonic Lodge #60 Pritchard, WV Masonic Lodge, and was a World War II US Navy Veteran. Glenn enjoyed farming, hunting and fishing, but most of all his family. Glenn was married to Dora Chapman Adkins for 45 years and she survives him in Patriot, Ohio along with three grandchildren, C.D. (Hope) Adkins, III of Patriot, Autumn Zinn of Scottown, Ohio, and Kristen Lawhon of Huntington, WV, an adopted son Jimmy (Bobby) Saunders of Beckley, WV, one daughter-in-law Seena Adkins of Gallipolis, Ohio, five great grandchildren, Natasha and Crystal Adkins, Cory Mannon, Troy Zinn, and Hunter Mannon, two great grandchildren Patrick Adkins-Burgess and Victoria Fisher, four sisters Eloise Murphy, Nancy (Pat) Young, Betty Mynes, and Patricia Sue Graham all of Lavalette, West Virginia. Glenn was preceded in death by a son Carroll Denzil Adkins I, and by a grandson, Carroll Denzil Adkins II, three brothers Dick, Bob and Larry David Adkins, and by two sisters Eula Lee Bryant and Mary Margaret Paulskievich. Services will be 1 pm Tuesday, February 28, 2012 at Willis Funeral Home with Pastor Alfred Holley officiating. Entombment will follow in the Chapel of Hope Mausoleum at Ohio Valley Memory Gardens. Friends may call on Tuesday from 11:30 am until the time of the services at Willis Funeral Home. Please visit www.willisfuneralhome.com to send email condolences