{"id":27220,"date":"2012-08-01T12:41:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T17:41:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=27220"},"modified":"2012-08-01T17:40:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T22:40:29","slug":"virgil-l-adkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/08\/01\/virgil-l-adkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Virgil L. Adkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Virgil L. Adkins, 73, of Van Wert and formerly of Haviland, died Monday, July 30, 2012, at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_27222\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-27222\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Virgil-Adkins-obit-photo-8-2012.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27222 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Virgil-Adkins-obit-photo-8-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"439\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-27222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Virgil L. Adkins<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He was born May 26, 1939, in Oak Hill, the son of the late Ernest and Iva (Leonard) Adkins. On August 3, 1965, he married Marilyn Joy \u201cJo\u201d (Dover) Adkins, who survives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/American-Flag-for-obituaries-6-2011.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8711\" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/American-Flag-for-obituaries-6-2011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"125\" height=\"66\" \/><\/a>He was a U.S. Army veteran serving during the Vietnam War era and retired as a truck driver in 2000, having previously worked for Osting Drainage, Scott Miller Trucking, Aeroquip Corporation in Van Wert, Chemical Waste of Fort Wayne, Ind., Ryder Transportation of Fort Wayne, and Active Transportation of Detroit, Mich. He was a member of Moose Lodge 1320 in Van Wert, Paulding Eagles Lodge 2405 and American Legion Post 178 and Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5803, both in Van Wert.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his wife, survivors include three daughters, Eve Marie Butler of Kingston, Okla., and Tammy Sue (Travis) McCoy and Misty Dawn Browning, both of Van Wert; a brother, Weldon (Georgianna) Adkins of Haviland; six sisters, Freda Farris of Grover Hill, Betty Lou Myers and Nancy Jo (Dave) Laukhuf, both of Paulding, Merri Adkins and Ruth Ann Healy, both of Fort Wayne, and Sandra Kay Lee of Haviland; nine grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n<p>A brother, Charles \u201cHobe\u201d Adkins; one sister, Shirley Yoh; and a granddaughter, Christine Marie Browning, also preceded him in death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday, August 4, at Den Herder Funeral Home in Paulding. Burial will follow in Pleasant View Cemetery in Latty Township, Paulding County.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Calling hours are from 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Friday, August 3, and an hour prior to services Saturday at the funeral home.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Preferred memorials: The family requests memorials be made to Community Health Professionals-Visiting Nurses and Hospice.<\/p>\n<p>Messages of condolence may be sent to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denherderfh.com\">www.denherderfh.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virgil L. Adkins, 73, of Van Wert and formerly of Haviland, died Monday, July 30, 2012, at the Van Wert Area Inpatient Hospice Center. He was born May 26, 1939, in Oak Hill, the son of the late Ernest and Iva (Leonard) Adkins. On August 3, 1965, he married Marilyn Joy \u201cJo\u201d (Dover) Adkins, who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-26 20:08:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}