Transcribed from Morristown Tribune - October 1979

Willis D. Adkins
Mrs. Willis Dean Adkins, 42, of 1405 Jefferson St., Morristown died Saturday morning at Holston Valley Community Hospital in Kingsport after a lingering illness.
She was a native of Letcher County Ky. Mrs. Adkins was a member of the Buffalo Trail Baptist Church. She was the daughter of the late Robert and Julia Newman Hall.
Survivors include her husband, Alvis Adkins, two sons, Alvis Adkins Jr., of Johnson City, and Villy (sp typo - Billy) Adkins, of Morristown, and two daughters Lori and Cynthia Adkins, both of the home.
Mrs. Adkins is also survived by three brothers, Ralph Greer, and Robert Junior Greer, both of Norton, Va. and Raymond Greer, of Johnson City; three sisters, Mrs. Ruth Owens, and Mrs. Bobbie Miller, both of Johnson City and Mrs. Delores McGinnis, of Montgomery, Ala., and several nieces and nephews.
Funeral services Monday at 1:30 p.m. at the Buffalo Trail Baptist Church with Revs. Ted Peace and Arnold Bud Pate (sp typo - Tate) officiating; burial will follow in Monte Vista Burial Park in Johnson City. Body will be moved to the church one hour before services.
The family will receive friends this evening at the Westside Chapel Funeral Home in Morristown.

Funeral Monday, October 8, 1979 - 1:30pm
Buffalo Trail Baptist Church (Morristown, TN)

Ministers:
Rev. Ted Pease
Rev. Arnold Bud Tate
Monte Vista Burial Park

Crossing The Bar
By: Alfred Lord Tennyson
Written 1889 - Three years before his death

Sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for me!
And may there be no moaning of the bar,
When I put out to sea,

But such a tide as moving seems asleep,
Too full for sound and foam,
When that which drew from out the boundless deep
Turns again home.

Twilight and evening bell,
And after that the dark!
And may there be no sadness of farewell,
When I embark;

For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place
The flood may bear me far,
I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar.