City Marshall Thomas Adkins was killed while responding to a prowler call in Dewar. He approached a vehicle and a man inside shot him in the back. He had been with the department 2 weeks.
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Page 2, Okmulgee, (Okla.), Daily Times, Saturday, July 27, 1974
THOMAS C. ADKINS
SEMINOLE Funeral Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Swearingen-Arnhart Funeral Home Chapel for Thomas C. Adkins, 45, of Holdenville, who died Thursday night in a shooting incident at Dewar.
Interment will be in the Little Cemetery north of Seminole under the direction of Swearingen-Arnhart Funeral Home.
Mr. Adkins, a police officer at Dewar, was born June 11, 1929 in Charleston, W. Va.. He came to Dewar from city marshals duties previously at Dustin and Kiowa. Prior to that time he was a campus security officer at St. Gregory College, Shawnee. He spent most of his life in law enforcement beginning with seven and one-half years in the air police. After which time he was city Marshall of Yam Hill, Ore. and as a private investigator for Pinkerton Agency in Los Angeles, Calif. He was a layman preacher for nondenominational churches and was a veteran of World War Two.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Hazel Adams, of the home in Holdenville, two daughters, Mrs. Sarah Elk, Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Mary Hail, Columbus, Ind., a son, Johnny Ray Adkins, Newport, Tenn., two step-daughters, Mrs. Glenda True Williams, Wewoka, and Mrs. Sue Brittain, Holdenville, two step-sons, James L. Taylor, Seminole, and Clifton Taylor, Wewoka, and 13 grandchildren.
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Page 2, Okmulgee, (Okla.), Daily Times, Saturday, July 27, 1974
THOMAS C. ADKINS
SEMINOLE Funeral Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Swearingen-Arnhart Funeral Home Chapel for Thomas C. Adkins, 45, of Holdenville, who died Thursday night in a shooting incident at Dewar.
Interment will be in the Little Cemetery north of Seminole under the direction of Swearingen-Arnhart Funeral Home.
Mr. Adkins, a police officer at Dewar, was born June 11, 1929 in Charleston, W. Va.. He came to Dewar from city marshals duties previously at Dustin and Kiowa. Prior to that time he was a campus security officer at St. Gregory College, Shawnee. He spent most of his life in law enforcement beginning with seven and one-half years in the air police. After which time he was city Marshall of Yam Hill, Ore. and as a private investigator for Pinkerton Agency in Los Angeles, Calif. He was a layman preacher for nondenominational churches and was a veteran of World War Two.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Hazel Adams, of the home in Holdenville, two daughters, Mrs. Sarah Elk, Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Mary Hail, Columbus, Ind., a son, Johnny Ray Adkins, Newport, Tenn., two step-daughters, Mrs. Glenda True Williams, Wewoka, and Mrs. Sue Brittain, Holdenville, two step-sons, James L. Taylor, Seminole, and Clifton Taylor, Wewoka, and 13 grandchildren.
City Marshall Thomas Adkins was killed while responding to a prowler call in Dewar. He approached a vehicle and a man inside shot him in the back. He had been with the department 2 weeks.
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Page 2, Okmulgee, (Okla.), Daily Times, Saturday, July 27, 1974
THOMAS C. ADKINS
SEMINOLE Funeral Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Swearingen-Arnhart Funeral Home Chapel for Thomas C. Adkins, 45, of Holdenville, who died Thursday night in a shooting incident at Dewar.
Interment will be in the Little Cemetery north of Seminole under the direction of Swearingen-Arnhart Funeral Home.
Mr. Adkins, a police officer at Dewar, was born June 11, 1929 in Charleston, W. Va.. He came to Dewar from city marshals duties previously at Dustin and Kiowa. Prior to that time he was a campus security officer at St. Gregory College, Shawnee. He spent most of his life in law enforcement beginning with seven and one-half years in the air police. After which time he was city Marshall of Yam Hill, Ore. and as a private investigator for Pinkerton Agency in Los Angeles, Calif. He was a layman preacher for nondenominational churches and was a veteran of World War Two.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Hazel Adams, of the home in Holdenville, two daughters, Mrs. Sarah Elk, Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Mary Hail, Columbus, Ind., a son, Johnny Ray Adkins, Newport, Tenn., two step-daughters, Mrs. Glenda True Williams, Wewoka, and Mrs. Sue Brittain, Holdenville, two step-sons, James L. Taylor, Seminole, and Clifton Taylor, Wewoka, and 13 grandchildren.
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Page 2, Okmulgee, (Okla.), Daily Times, Saturday, July 27, 1974
THOMAS C. ADKINS
SEMINOLE Funeral Services will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Swearingen-Arnhart Funeral Home Chapel for Thomas C. Adkins, 45, of Holdenville, who died Thursday night in a shooting incident at Dewar.
Interment will be in the Little Cemetery north of Seminole under the direction of Swearingen-Arnhart Funeral Home.
Mr. Adkins, a police officer at Dewar, was born June 11, 1929 in Charleston, W. Va.. He came to Dewar from city marshals duties previously at Dustin and Kiowa. Prior to that time he was a campus security officer at St. Gregory College, Shawnee. He spent most of his life in law enforcement beginning with seven and one-half years in the air police. After which time he was city Marshall of Yam Hill, Ore. and as a private investigator for Pinkerton Agency in Los Angeles, Calif. He was a layman preacher for nondenominational churches and was a veteran of World War Two.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Hazel Adams, of the home in Holdenville, two daughters, Mrs. Sarah Elk, Cleveland, Ohio, and Mrs. Mary Hail, Columbus, Ind., a son, Johnny Ray Adkins, Newport, Tenn., two step-daughters, Mrs. Glenda True Williams, Wewoka, and Mrs. Sue Brittain, Holdenville, two step-sons, James L. Taylor, Seminole, and Clifton Taylor, Wewoka, and 13 grandchildren.
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