JENKINS, Thomas Keith, 49, died Friday, June 25, 2010. Keith was born in Lancaster, Virginia. He had a wonderful childhood growing up on the Corrottoman River. He was a good man with a loving, gentle heart and spirit. Sadly, at age 16 he was in an accident that caused brain trauma. He has been employed for the last nine years by RLC Enterprises as a part-time maintenance employee for a large apartment complex in Madison, Wisconsin. A memorial service was given there where the residents loved Keith. He was preceded in death by his father, George Henry Jenkins. Survivors include his mother, Marie Elizabeth Listander of The Villages, Fla.; sister, Karen Marie Jenkins of Ocala, Fla., brothers, Kenn Nelson Jenkins of Los Angeles, California, and Keary Alexander Jenkins of Washington, D.C.; niece, Tinslie Marie Jenkins Fowler of Gainesville, Fla. The Reverend Benjamin Campbell will conduct the memorial and interment service in Richmond, Virginia, at the Forest Lawn Cemetery on Saturday, July 24, 2010, at 3 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to MCV Foundation of the Trauma Center Fund "50180"; Attention: Shawn Davis, P.O. Box 980234, Richmond, Va. 23298, in the name of Thomas Keith Jenkins.
This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.