Harold Gladstone Atkins Jr.
1936 - 2008
Harold Gladstone Atkins Jr.
1936 - 2008
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BORN
1936
DIED
2008
Harold Atkins Obituary
Visitation for Mr. Atkins will be Saturday January 5, 2008 from 1:30 PM – 3 PM at Lowndes Funeral Home, Columbus, MS. Funeral services will be at 3 PM Saturday January 5, 2008 in the Lowndes Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Keith Harwell officiating. Interment will be in Friendship Cemetery, Columbus, MS with Lowndes Funeral Home directing.
Mr. Atkins was born in Columbus, MS May 5, 1936 to the late Harold Gladstone and Martha Maurine Morris Atkins. He retired in 1998 as a locomotive engineer with Norfolk Southern Railroad after 37 years of service and was a member of First Cumberland Presbyterian Church, Columbus, MS. Mr. Atkins love to work in his garden and enjoying everything nature presented.
Mr. Atkins is survived by his wife Cynthia Carroll Atkins, Birmingham, AL; sons – Stanley Douglas Atkins and David Allen Atkins both of Birmingham, AL; daughter – Pamela Atkins McCord, Texas; step-son – James Matthews, Birmingham, AL; sister – Anna Katherine (Ed) Prescott, Columbus, MS; brothers – Henry Edward (Joan) Atkins and James Donald (Nancy) Atkins both of Columbus, MS; 10 grandchildren, 1 great grandchild and a host of nieces and nephews. Pallbearers will be his Nephews and David Ashmore. Honorary Pallbearers will be Selvin Swartz and Hilton McCollough.
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Beth and Kerry Huffer
January 6, 2008
Our thoughts and prayers are with you in your time of grief. May your memories bring you comfort.
The Staff of Lowndes Funeral Home & Crematory
January 5, 2008
Offering our deepest condolences during this time.
Frances R Ayers
January 5, 2008
It is with fond memories that we send our heartfelt sympathy to all of Harold's family in the death of our dear friend.
Billy Randall, Frances Randall Ayers, and Martha Brooks Speir
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