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Vikki Jo Atkinson

Birth
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10 Aug 1966 (aged 17)
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Bessemer, Jefferson County, Alabama, USA Add to Map
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The Birmingham News
Thursday, August 11, 1966
Page 7

Services Friday for Miss Atkinson

BESSEMER, Aug. 11 - Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday for Miss Vikki Jo Atkinson, 17, who died in a Birmingham hospital Wednesday evening. The Rev. Dewey E. Mayfield will officiate at Brown-Service Bessemer Chapel. Burial will be in Highland Memorial Gardens.

Miss Atkinson would have been a senior at Bessemer High School this fall. She was a cheerleader, a member of Alpha Tri-Hi-Y, and a member of Sports Club, and participated in the school's beauty pageant the last two years. She was a member of Broadmoor Baptist Church.

Miss Atkinson was the daughter of Clettus Atkinson, Birmingham Post-Herald sports writer, and Mrs. Atkinson. Also surviving are a sister, Miss Rita Atkinson, a student at University of Alabama; a brother, Gene Allen Atkinson, home on leave from the U. S. Marines, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Conway of Atlanta, Ga., and George Atkinson of Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Birmingham News
Thursday, August 11, 1966
Page 7

Services Friday for Miss Atkinson

BESSEMER, Aug. 11 - Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday for Miss Vikki Jo Atkinson, 17, who died in a Birmingham hospital Wednesday evening. The Rev. Dewey E. Mayfield will officiate at Brown-Service Bessemer Chapel. Burial will be in Highland Memorial Gardens.

Miss Atkinson would have been a senior at Bessemer High School this fall. She was a cheerleader, a member of Alpha Tri-Hi-Y, and a member of Sports Club, and participated in the school's beauty pageant the last two years. She was a member of Broadmoor Baptist Church.

Miss Atkinson was the daughter of Clettus Atkinson, Birmingham Post-Herald sports writer, and Mrs. Atkinson. Also surviving are a sister, Miss Rita Atkinson, a student at University of Alabama; a brother, Gene Allen Atkinson, home on leave from the U. S. Marines, and her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Conway of Atlanta, Ga., and George Atkinson of Grand Rapids, Mich.


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