Funeral Rites Conducted Here Last Friday For James Earl Askins, 85 --
Funeral services for James Earl Askins, 85, were conducted at 10 o'clock last Friday morning at the Higgins Funeral Home, but I. C. Pullias and the Rev. Arnold J. Porter. Burial was in the Lebanon Cemetery beside his wife, Mrs. Bettie Pitts Askins, who died in 1965.
Mr. Askins died last Wednesday evening in the Lincoln County Hospital after a long illness.
He was born in Lincoln County and was the son of the late Robert Hamilton and Nancy Harrison Askins.
For thirty-three years he was an officer of Fayetteville and Lincoln County, of which time he served as chief of police, city patrolman, and deputy sheriff. Upon his retirement in 1960, he operated a grocery store in Fayetteville. He was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Lewis and Kenneth Askins, both of Fayetteville; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Source:
Lincoln County News
Fayetteville, Tennessee
Wednesday, November 6, 1969
Funeral services for James Earl Askins, 85, were conducted at 10 o'clock last Friday morning at the Higgins Funeral Home, but I. C. Pullias and the Rev. Arnold J. Porter. Burial was in the Lebanon Cemetery beside his wife, Mrs. Bettie Pitts Askins, who died in 1965.
Mr. Askins died last Wednesday evening in the Lincoln County Hospital after a long illness.
He was born in Lincoln County and was the son of the late Robert Hamilton and Nancy Harrison Askins.
For thirty-three years he was an officer of Fayetteville and Lincoln County, of which time he served as chief of police, city patrolman, and deputy sheriff. Upon his retirement in 1960, he operated a grocery store in Fayetteville. He was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Lewis and Kenneth Askins, both of Fayetteville; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Source:
Lincoln County News
Fayetteville, Tennessee
Wednesday, November 6, 1969
Funeral Rites Conducted Here Last Friday For James Earl Askins, 85 --
Funeral services for James Earl Askins, 85, were conducted at 10 o'clock last Friday morning at the Higgins Funeral Home, but I. C. Pullias and the Rev. Arnold J. Porter. Burial was in the Lebanon Cemetery beside his wife, Mrs. Bettie Pitts Askins, who died in 1965.
Mr. Askins died last Wednesday evening in the Lincoln County Hospital after a long illness.
He was born in Lincoln County and was the son of the late Robert Hamilton and Nancy Harrison Askins.
For thirty-three years he was an officer of Fayetteville and Lincoln County, of which time he served as chief of police, city patrolman, and deputy sheriff. Upon his retirement in 1960, he operated a grocery store in Fayetteville. He was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Lewis and Kenneth Askins, both of Fayetteville; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Source:
Lincoln County News
Fayetteville, Tennessee
Wednesday, November 6, 1969
Funeral services for James Earl Askins, 85, were conducted at 10 o'clock last Friday morning at the Higgins Funeral Home, but I. C. Pullias and the Rev. Arnold J. Porter. Burial was in the Lebanon Cemetery beside his wife, Mrs. Bettie Pitts Askins, who died in 1965.
Mr. Askins died last Wednesday evening in the Lincoln County Hospital after a long illness.
He was born in Lincoln County and was the son of the late Robert Hamilton and Nancy Harrison Askins.
For thirty-three years he was an officer of Fayetteville and Lincoln County, of which time he served as chief of police, city patrolman, and deputy sheriff. Upon his retirement in 1960, he operated a grocery store in Fayetteville. He was a member of the First Baptist Church.
Survivors include two sons, Lewis and Kenneth Askins, both of Fayetteville; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Source:
Lincoln County News
Fayetteville, Tennessee
Wednesday, November 6, 1969
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