MENNIE LORENE AKERS

PAULS VALLEY-Services for Mennie Lorene Akers, 82, Pauls Valley, formerly of Ada are 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, her son, Don Akers will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Akers died Thursday, September 3, 2009 at a Pauls Valley nursing home. She was born December 20, 1926 at Fillmore, Oklahoma to Virgil and Annie Buckaloo Cogburn. She attended Fillmore area schools.

She married Alvin Bert Akers on September 15, 1954. He preceded her in death on January 26, 2000. Mr. and Mrs. Akers moved to Ada in 1968 from Lancaster, Texas. Mrs. Akers was a homemaker and she and her husband started several mission churches of the Apostolic Faith in Oklahoma and Texas.

Survivors include three sons, Robert Akers, Ada, Thomas Akers and wife Linda, Seminole, and Don Akers and wife Roberta, Pauls Valley; four sisters, Patsy Yandell, Ennis, Texas, Betty Carnley, Diboll, Texas, Judy Brister and husband Leroy, Durant, and Maudine Richie and husband Sam, Madill; one brother, Bobby Cogburn and wife Joy, Durant; a brother-in-law, Arthur Yandell; sister-in-law, Diane Cogburn; eleven grandchildren; several great grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, one granddaughter, a brother, and five sisters.

Bearers will be Caleb Akers, Luke Akers, Benjamin Akers, Joseph Akers, Anthony Mann and Brad Townsend. Honorary bearers will be Steve Waters, Troy Fullerton, James Pentecost and Jonathan Akers.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada