Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Friday, July 21, 2000
TERRELL WRIGHT DAWKINS, 80, of Fort Myers, Fla., formerly of Memphis, retired co-owner of Dawkins Electric Co. on North Second, where he worked for more than 60 years, died of respiratory failure Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East.
Services will be at noon today at Memorial Park Funeral Home with burial in Memorial Park. He was a member of Southwest Baptist Church in Fort Myers, was a former deacon and Sunday school director for Bellevue Baptist Church and also helped establish Bellevue's television ministry in 1959.
He was a 33rd-degree Mason and was appointed chaplain of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Tennessee, the Illustrious Grand Council of Tennessee-Grand Royal Arch Chapter, the Memphis Scottish Rite Bodies and Al Chymia Shrine Temple. He received his electrical engineering degree at Purdue University.
Mr. Dawkins, the husband of Geneva Long Dawkins and widower of Evelyn Wynkoop Dawkins, also leaves three sons, Robert Terrell Dawkins of Cordova, Charles Tate Dawkins of Germantown and James Lee Dawkins of Dallas; a stepdaughter, Dixie Brown of Monon, Ind.; a brother, B. Tate Dawkins Jr. of Memphis, and seven grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to Bellevue Baptist Foundation.
Commercial Appeal, The (Memphis, TN)
Friday, July 21, 2000
TERRELL WRIGHT DAWKINS, 80, of Fort Myers, Fla., formerly of Memphis, retired co-owner of Dawkins Electric Co. on North Second, where he worked for more than 60 years, died of respiratory failure Monday at Baptist Memorial Hospital East.
Services will be at noon today at Memorial Park Funeral Home with burial in Memorial Park. He was a member of Southwest Baptist Church in Fort Myers, was a former deacon and Sunday school director for Bellevue Baptist Church and also helped establish Bellevue's television ministry in 1959.
He was a 33rd-degree Mason and was appointed chaplain of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Tennessee, the Illustrious Grand Council of Tennessee-Grand Royal Arch Chapter, the Memphis Scottish Rite Bodies and Al Chymia Shrine Temple. He received his electrical engineering degree at Purdue University.
Mr. Dawkins, the husband of Geneva Long Dawkins and widower of Evelyn Wynkoop Dawkins, also leaves three sons, Robert Terrell Dawkins of Cordova, Charles Tate Dawkins of Germantown and James Lee Dawkins of Dallas; a stepdaughter, Dixie Brown of Monon, Ind.; a brother, B. Tate Dawkins Jr. of Memphis, and seven grandchildren. The family requests that memorials be sent to Bellevue Baptist Foundation.
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