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Virginia Ruth Beckham Adkins
Virginia Ruth Beckham Adkins, formerly of Lake
Jackson, Texas, passed away Tuesday, July 16, 2002, at Willowbrook
Nursing Home in Nacogdoches, Texas.
Visitation will be Friday, July 19,
2002, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., at Lakewood Funeral Home in Lake Jackson, Texas.
Gravesite services will be at Restwood
Memorial Park in Lake Jackson, Saturday, July 20, 2002, at 10:00 a.m., with
Rev. John Hatch officiating.
Virginia was born in Mexia, Texas, March 23, 1917 to Jesse Beckham and
Ruth Hamilton Beckham and reared in Coolidge, Texas. She and her husband Dave
Adkins had a dry cleaning business in Lake Jackson and a grocery store in Alvarado, Texas. She returned to the
coast in the late 1960s and managed Manor House Inn in Houston until she
retired. She then moved back to Lake Jackson and sold real estate at Property Services for several years before moving to
East Texas. She was a longstanding member of Lake Jackson First Baptist Church.
Her daughter
Billie Dunn and husband Bill Mays of Minden, Texas, and daughter Gayle Morrow of Annapolis,
Maryland survive Virginia. She leaves four grandchildren: Benny Dunn, Kent Barnes, Jesse Morrow, and Katie Morrow; six great-grandchildren: Heather Dunn, Jeramy Dunn, Carissa Dunn, Malissa Dunn,
Keith Ryder, and Tyler Pinter; two great-great-grandchildren: Chelsea Therrien and Dylan Dunn.
She was preceded in death
by her parents, sister Elizabeth "Libby" Salmon and grandson Bobby Lee Dunn.
Memorials may be made
to the Alzheimer's Association, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1000, Chicago, Illinois
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Cotton, Almer Allen, b. 19 Jul 1912, d. 18 Dec 1944, Lost in Action at Sea WWII
Cotton, Carolyn
Sue, b. 9 Apr 1951, d. 22 Oct 1998
Cotton, Clara S., b. 9 Dec 1884, d. 28 May 1953
Cotton, Dulcia M.,
b. 12 Jan 1880, d. 22 Apr 1922, bur. in Honest Ridge Cemetery, Limestone Co., TX
Cotton, Edgar Elvin, b. 14 Sep
1907, d. 28 Nov 1992
Cotton, Edna Faye, b. 30 Jun 1913, d. 13 Aug 1991
Cotton, Edna, b. 15 Jul 1911, d.
1 Jan 1966
Cotton, Horace, b. 30 Jan 1910, d. 2 Oct 1997
Cotton, J. W., b. 27 Aug 1900, d. 24 Sep 1938
Cotton,
Linda Sue, b. 20 Apr 1940, d. 5 Apr 2001
Cotton, Rosa May, b. 15 Mar 1907, d. 17 Apr 2001
Cotton, S. M.,
b. 17 Jan 1905, d. 29 Mar 1999
Cotton, Will W., b. 12 Nov 1867, d. 14 May 1948
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COTTON KIN AT COOLIDGE, TEXAS, kin to Busby's and Beckhams
*Our Cottons at Coolidge, my Grandmothers Grandmother listed at Mattie Cotton, she is also the Mother of Guy Beckham, of
Coolidge and builder of the Beckham Hotel in Mineola where the Opry is housed.
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Cotton, Earl G., b. 8 Feb 1923, d. 8 Feb 1945
Cotton, J. W., b. 28 Apr 1864, d. 14 Jan 1930,
"Father"
Cotton, Jennie, b. 4 Oct 1865, d. 21 Nov 1963, "Mother"
Cotton, Katherine Wright, b. 10 Jan 1902,
d. 14 Sep 1996
*Cotton, Mattie, b. 5 Feb 1853, d. 23 Jan 1940, "Grandmother"
Cotton, Owen R., b. 27 Jul
1896, d. 6 Dec 1986, Pvt US Army WW
Cotton, Patrick B., b. 27 Apr 1875, d. 26 Feb 1927
and our Beckhams at Coolidge, Cemetary
Beckham, Bennie B. Cotton, b. 12 Sep 1900, d. 27 May 1985,
s/w J. J. Beckham
Beckham, Guy T., b. 17 Mar 1914, d. 29 Feb 1948
Beckham, J. J., b. 7 Jun 1899, d. 10
Feb 1976, s/w Bennie B. Cotton Beckham
Beckham, Maydell, b. 20 Feb 1916, d. 12 Feb 1999, "Mother"
Beckham,
Newman Jackson, b. 19 May 1920, d. 12 Jun 1983
Beckham, Tracy, b. 28 Jan 1883, d. 6 Nov 1945, "Mother | |
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Guy T. BECKHAM |
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Birth Year |
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Age |
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S <Single> |
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W <White> |
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John J. BECKHAM |
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AL |
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