Martha Adkins

Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Alice Adkins, 68 of Cookeville will be held Tuesday December 23 at 11 a.m. in the Cookeville Chapel of Hooper-Huddleston & Horner Funeral Home. Bro. Ronnie Cobb will officiate. Interment will follow in Algood City Cemetery. The family will receive friends Monday from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. and again Tuesday from 10 a.m. until service time at the funeral home. Mrs. Adkins died Saturday afternoon December 20, 2014 at Cookeville Regional Medical Center surrounded by her adoring family. She was born November 16, 1946 in Algood to the late Howard E. and Anna Louise Bowman Cobble. Martha attended Algood High School. She worked for Acme Boot Company and later for the Putnam Co. Schools System as a Cook at Jere Whitson Elementary School. She served on the Putnam County Fair Board, serving as President for one year. Mrs. Adkins will be remembered for her deep and abiding love for her family. A devoted wife and mother, she had a special love for her grandchildren. She enjoyed square dancing with her husband, flowers and gardening. She was a longtime member of Wirmingham Church of Christ in Monroe. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her brother, Joe Cobble; special daughter, Angela Migliore Adkins; and by her mother and father-in-law, Minnie and Howard Adkins. She is survived by her husband of nearly 50 years, Joe Frank Adkins (whom she married June 5, 1965 in Jackson Co.); son, Rick Adkins; daughter, Tammy Hoover; grandchildren, Wade (Amanda) Adkins, Wesley Adkins, Jon Michael Hoover and Grant Hoover, all of Cookeville; brother, David (Jane) Cobble of Rickman; sister, Linda Smith (Aaron) Newberry of Monroe; and by a sisters-in-law, Norene (Sam) Tallent and Nora Cobble, both of Algood. Wade Adkins, Wesley Adkins, Jon Michael Hoover, Grant Hoover, Greg Cobble and Trevor Cobble will serve as pallbearers.