The following obituary was taken from the Beckley Post Herald, dated Friday, September 26, 1958.
Rites Set Today For Ray Adkins
Marfrance, Sept. 25 - Funeral services for Ray Adkins, 41, of Marfrance will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in the Meadow
Creek Baptist Church with the Rev. Bill Houchins in charge. Burial will be in the Gwinn Cemetery at Meadow Creek.
Adkins died Tuesday evening from a gunshot wound.
The body was removed from Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in East Rainelle to the home of a sister, Mrs. Dorothy Ward,
at Thayer at 5 p.m. today.