Harley J. Adkison Jr.

Published 12:00 am Monday, October 25, 2010

ALVATON — Harley Joseph “Joe” Adkison Sr., 84, of Alvaton, died Oct. 22, 2010.

He was born May 26, 1926. He was formerly employed by Byron Rogers Farm (now Olde Stone), Detrex Manufacturing, was a self-employed barn and house painter, a self-employed carpenter and a lifelong farmer. He was a son of the late Harve Adkison and Sally Brooks Adkison and the husband of the late Gloria Dean Sanders Adkison. He was preceded in death by four brothers, Hollis, Floyd, John Henry and Curtis Adkison; four sisters, Margaret Mansfield, Alma Robertson, Helen Adkison and Rosa Adkison; and a daughter-in-law, Brenda Jean Adkison.

Memorial service is at 2 p.m. Nov. 1 at Bethany Baptist Church in Alvaton, with burial in Pleasant Hill Cemetery at Alvaton.

Survivors include a sister, Mildred Adkison Puckett; his children, Harley “Harry” Joseph Adkison Jr., Patricia Cullen and her husband, John, Danny Adkison and his wife, Patsy, Joan Klokoc and her husband, Ronnie, Debra Jo Harwood and her husband, Steve, Ricky Adkison and his wife, Tammy, Karen Bullock and her husband, Vander, and Lori Ann Adkison; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.