 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas  J.D. Akridge 22 February 1906 - 10 July 1962 Jacquelyn F. Akridge 9 January 1910 - 20 May 1996 Funeral
services were held Wednesday afternoon in Waldo Funeral chapel here for
J.D. Akridge, 56, of Travis St. Road, grain and trucking business man.
He died at 8 a.m. Tuesday in a Sherman hospital, 3 hours after
suffering a stroke. Rev. Charles E. Glass, pastor of the First
Penacostal Church, and Rev. John P. Minter, pastor of Grand Ave.
Presbyterian Church, conducted the services. Burial was in West
Hill Cemetery. Harry Hudgins, Lloyd Dulaney, Sr., Jerry Talley, Jack Howell, Charles Newsom, Delbert Nichols, Charles Atnip, and Norris Lipscomb were pallbearers. Mr. Akridge was born February 22, 1906 in the Desert Community, south of Whitewright. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. G.A. Akridge. On December 9, 1929, he married Miss Jacqualyn Newsom. He had lived in Sherman since 1914 and attended public school here. He was a member of Grand Ave. Presbyterian Church. Survivors are his wife; 2 daughters, Mrs. Edward Shand of Corpus Christi and Mrs. Sandra Kay Qualls of Sherman; a sister, Mrs. W.S. Caraway of Blue Ridge; 2 grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. West Hill Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |