Mary Atkins

Grandma Mary J. Atkins, 89, of Hopedale, OH, died Saturday, January 12, 2002 at Trinity Medical Center, West, Steubenville, OH. She was born July 27, 1912 near Cadiz, Ohio, the eldest of the fifteen children of Clyde and Helen Greer Dunlap. She was a retired cook and baker at the Blue Star Restaurant in Cadiz and at Cadiz Country Club; a member of the Harrison Hills United Pentecostal Church near Jewett; a member and past president of the Hopedale American Legion Auxiliary; a charter member of the Hopedale Volunteer Fire Department Auxiliary; and the Hopedale American Legion Citizen of the Year 1975. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband William Henry Atkins in 1987. They married February 16, 1929. Also by a son, William Arthur Atkins; an infant daughter; two grandchildren; 5 brothers, Roy, John, James, Clifford and Floyd Dunlap; 6 sisters, Elizabeth Snyder, Leonda Leggett, Mildred Decaminada, Edith Leggett, Mable Dunlap, and Shirley Sterlilng. Surviving are 3 sons, Jack (Pat) Atkins, Donald (Sharon) Atkins and Andy (Sue) Atkins, all of Hopedale; 4 daughters, Hannah Saxton, of Zanesville, Dorothy (Harold) Wickliff, Jewett, Marjorie (James) Ward, Hopedale, and Mary Beth (Brian) Hanlon, Alabama; 3 brothers, Rev. Chant Dunlap, Virginia, David Dunlap, Cadiz, and Lloyd Dunlap, Zanesville; a special friend Mistia Mae Darios, Hopedale; 30 grandchildren; 53 great grandchildren; 24 great great grandchildren; 1 great great great grandchild. Friends may call Sunday, January 13, 2002 from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. at Clark-Kirkland Funeral Home, Cadiz, Ohio, where funeral services will be held Monday, January 14, 2002 at 2:00 p.m. with Rev. Joseph Dunlap officiating. Burial will follow at the Hopedale Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Gables Care Center, Activities Fund, 350 Lahm Dr., Hopedale, Ohio 43976.

Service

Monday, January 14, 2002 2:00 PM
Clark-Kirkland-Barr Funeral Home, Inc.
172 South Main Street Cadiz 4390, United States