Typed as spelled and written
- Lena Stone Criswell
EAKIN, LEROY
Surnames: EAKIN, SHUTTLESWORTH, THOMPSON, BACON.
(Newspaper probably Waco Tribune-Herald)
Sept 19, 1990
LeROY EAKIN, 76,
RETIRED POLICEMAN,
GREAT-GRANDFATHER
LeRoy Eakin, 76, a retired Waco policeman, died Tuesday in a local hospital.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at Wilkirson-Hatch Chapel, the Rev. David Shuttlesworth officiating. Private graveside services will be at Waco Memorial Park.
Mr. Eakin was born Sept. 16, 1914 in Chilton and was reared and attended school in Waco, where he lived most of his life. He married Dorothy Ellen Thompson on Jan. 6, 1933, in Waco. He was a member of Park Lake Drive Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Dorothy Ellen Eakin of Waco; a son, William LeRoy Eakin of Waco; two sisters, Ivy Mae Pharr Bacon of Akron, Ohio, and Rethel Pharr Eakin of Washington, D.C.; three grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
The family has designated the Park Lake Drive Baptist Church or Scottish Rite Children's Hospital in Dallas for memorials.
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