Funeral for Mrs. Bobbie Faye Atkins Jennings age 82 of Priceville will be Monday April 8, 2013 at 12:00pm at Somerville Church of God with Rev. Pearl Jenkins officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing. Burial will be in Decatur City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 10:00am til service time at the Church Monday April 8, 2013. Mrs. Jennings who died Saturday April 6, 2013 at NHC Facility in Moulton was born September 1, 1930 in Morgan County to Robert (Bob) Atkins and Betty Elizabeth Williams Atkins. She attended Priceville High School and graduated from Morgan County High School in May 1949. She worked for Alabama Hosiery Mill in Decatur for 7 years and then graduated from Anderson Business College. She later worked for Bell Telephone Co. in Charleston, S.C. and then for Mutual Life Insurance in Decatur, Al. She later worked for the U.S. Army Missile Command at Redstone Arsenal from 1957 to 1986 when she retired with a medical disability. She received numerous awards for her service to the Army. Bobbie traveled extensively and expressed much desire to visit Germany and Israel again. Bobbie did not have children of her own, but she loved her brothers and sisters children and grandchildren as her own. She was everybody’s “favorite” aunt. Bobbie believed it was Gods will for her to help others and she was faithful in doing this and serving her church. Bobbie was preceded in death by her parents ; the love of her life her husband James Willard Jennings; two sisters and their husbands Cora Ella and Dwight Aldridge, and Dollie and Loyd Shelton; a brother Lamar Atkins; a sister-in-law Linda Atkins and a nephew Allan Shelton. She is survived by three brothers, Charles Atkins of Priceville ; J.W. Atkins(Hesta) of Hartselle; J.C. Atkins(Shelby) of Mount Hope; Two sisters Dianna Gurley(Joel) of Somerville and Carol Parsons( Steve) of Hartselle, and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends. Nephews will serve as pallbearers. In lieu of flowers the family request that memorial contributions be made to the Somerville Church of God Cemetery Fund or Hospice of the Valley. The family is so thankful to Hospice of the Valley and NHC for its care and love for our sister while in their care.
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