Skip to main content

Aden B. Adkins

Aden Basil Adkins, 76, of Somerset, IN, and having family members in Huntington, IN, died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, at12:32 p.m. at Parkview Wabash Hospital, in Wabash.

Mr. Adkins was self-employed as a truck driver and hauler.

He was born Jan. 25, 1938, in Marion to Basil and Dorothy Prickett Adkins. He married Helen I. Atkinson on Sept. 11, 1956, and she survives.

Additional survivors include two sons, Gary Adkins and Charles Adkins, both of Somerset; a daughter, Sandra Adkins, of Somerset; a brother, Charles Eldon (Aida) Adkins, of El Paso, TX; a sister, Vivian (Richard) Good, of North Manchester; a sister-in-law, Kim Adkins; four grandchildren, Michael (Nicki) Gordon, of Roann; Michael (Ashley) Vandermark, of LaFontaine; Justin (Donyell) Adkins, of Somerset; and Adrien (Travis) Schenkel; eight great-grandchildren; and two stepgreat-grandchildren.

A service was held on Thursday, Jan. 22, 2015, at McDonald Funeral Home, in Wabash, with Rev. Jim Miller officiating. Burial was at Mississinewa Cemetery, in Somerset.

Memorial gifts may be made to the Somerset Lions Club in care of McDonald Funeral Home.