Robin D. Akers

1970 - 1987  (16 years)

• Name	Robin D. Akers
  Birth	27 Oct 1970	Hinton, Summers Co., WV   [1]
  Gender	Female
  Death	13 Jun 1987	Sandstone, Summers Co., WV   [1]
  	Cause: drowning
  Burial	16 Jun 1987	Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV   [1]
  Person ID	I48030	Meadow Bluff Meanderings
  Last Modified	12 Mar 2016

  
  

  Father	Robert Harold Akers
  Mother	Frances Murlie McCutcheon
  Family ID	F16637	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 27 Oct 1970 - Hinton, Summers Co., WV Death - Cause: drowning - 13 Jun 1987 - Sandstone, Summers Co., WV Burial - 16 Jun 1987 - Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville, Greenbrier Co., WV  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  The Mountain Messenger, Lewisburg, WV, Tuesday, 23 Jun 1987, p. 6A, col. A GRASSY MEADOWS - Robin D. Akers, 16, of Grassy Meadows, drown June 13, 1987 in the New River at Sandstone. Born October 27, 1970 at Hinton, she was a daughter of Robert Harold and Frances McCutcheon Akers. She was a student of Greenbrier West High School and was a member of the Jehovah Witness Congregation of Lilly Park in Rainelle. Survivors include: 2 sisters, Tabatha Thomas of Ferrum, VA, and Jamie Akers at home; 1 brother, Benjamin of Mt. Airy, N.C., and Maternal Grandmother Mrs. Dova McCutcheon of Leivasy. Services were held at 1:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Wallace and Wallace Funeral Home in Rainelle with Speaker Curtis Guyer officiating. Burial was in the Wallace Memorial Cemtery in Clintonville. The Charleston Gazette, Charleston, WV, Monday, 15 Jun 1987 TWO TEENAGERS DROWN IN THE NEW RIVER SANDSTONE - Two teenagers on a church group outing on the New River in Summers County drowned Saturday when they were caught in the river's current, according to a spokeswoman for the state police detachment in Hinton. Robin D. Akers, 16, of Grassy Meadows, Greenbrier County, and Phillip Leon Meadows, 16, of Nettie, Nicholas County, drowned at about 5:45 p.m., according to state police reports. They had been wading in shallow water in the New River when, according to witnesses, the current swept them out into deep water in a matter of seconds. Attempts to rescue them were not successful, she said. The incident was investigated by Trooper J.S. Tincher. Akers was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses at Lilly Park in Rainelle and was and was a student at Greenbrier West High School. Surviving: parents, Robert Harold and Frances McCutcheon Akers; sisters, Tabatha Thomas of Ferrum, Va., and Jamie Akers, at home; brother, Benjamin of Mount Airy, N.C.; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Dova McCutcheon of Leivasy. Service will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at Wallace-Wallace Funeral Home, Rainelle, with speaker Curtis Guyer officiating. Burial will be in Wallace Memorial Cemetery, Clintonville. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home. Meadows was a member of Jehovah's Witnesses in Summersville and was a student at Richwood High School. Surviving: mother, Ruth Akers Meadows of Nettie; sisters, Drema Kay Meadows, Sarah Jane Jones, Katherine Rapp and Melissa Ann Allen, all of Summersville, Connie Jean Dennison of Nettie and Wanda Jaqueline Cummings of Beckley; grandparents, Arthur and Leona Meadows of Nettie. Service will be 1 p.m. Tuesday at Wallace-Wallace Funeral Home, Rainelle, with speaker Curtis Guyer officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery, Nettie. Friends may call from 6 to 9 p.m. today at the funeral home.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1749] West Virginia. Lewisburg., Mountain Messenger, "Obituaries, Robin D. Akers," 23 Jun 1987, p. 6A, col. A; digital images, \i Newspaper Archive of Mountain Messenger, Lewisburg, WV\i0 ?(http://mms.stparchive.com/ : accessed 20 Feb 2016). (Reliability: 3).