Willie Delmas Atkins, age 64 of the Coleytown Community passed away on Friday morning, May 21, 2010 at the VA Medical Center in Nashville. Funeral services for Willie Delmas Atkins were conducted on Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. from the Chapel of the Anderson & Son Funeral Home in Lafayette with E.C. Meadows officiating. Interment followed in the Anderson & Son Memorial Park with military honors. His family and friends served as pallbearers. Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000187 EndHTML:0000003638 StartFragment:0000002370 EndFragment:0000003602 SourceURL:file://localhost/Users/computer/Desktop/obitsw:pics/Atkins,%20W.D..doc Willie was born Saturday, July 28, 1945 in Jackson County, TN, one of six siblings born to the late Earl Thomas and Clora Jane Witcher Atkins. On October 9, 1965, he married the former Shirley Honaker, who survives. He was a retired Maintenance Supervisor for the Macon County Board of Education, a member of the Lafayette Church of Christ where he served as a Deacon and proudly served his country in the United States Army during the Vietnam Era receiving the National Defense Service Medal and the Good Conduct Medal. Willie loved to fish and was really looking forward to getting his senior fishing license.
Besides his wife, Shirley of 44 years, He is survived by:
Daughters and Son-in-Law,
Wendy and Dwight Cothron of Hartsville,
Laura Atkins of the Coleytown Community,
Grandsons, Kyle and Jacob Cothron of Hartsville,
Sisters and Brother-in-Law, Wanda Evitts of Gallatin, Nannie Evelyn Loyd of Lafayette, Betty Chandler of Madison, Judy and Donnie Gammons of the Webbtown Community,
Brother and Sister-in-Law, Bruce and Kathleen Atkins of Gallatin,
Step-Brother, Larry Harper of Lafayette,
Step-Mother, Virginia Atkins of Lafayette.