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Lela Orelle Atkins
11/25/1924 - 11/12/2011

Funeral services for Lela Orelle Sikes Atkins, 86 of Crowville, Louisiana will be held Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel of Mulhearn Funeral Home in Winnsboro with Rev. Todd Perry and Rev. Larry Walters officiating. Interment will follow in Crowville Masonic Cemetery under the direction of Mulhearn Funeral Home of Winnsboro.

Lela Orelle Sikes Atkins was born on November 25, 1924 and passed away on November 12, 2011 after a lengthy illness at Deerfield Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Delhi, Louisiana. Mrs. Atkins was a lifelong homemaker who enjoyed taking pictures, gardening, music, crochet, genealogy and taking care of her family.

Mrs. Atkins was preceded in death by her parents; William R. and Lela Mae Antley Sikes, husband; William B. Atkins, brother; William Lathon Sikes and sons; Robert L. Atkins and Henry W. Atkins.

Survivors include her 5 sons; Wilburn F. Atkins and wife Dorothy of Rayville, LA, James E. Atkins and wife Lori of Jena, LA, William Dale Atkins and wife Nora of Delhi, LA, David L. Atkins and wife Cindy of Natchez, MS, and Sheldon E. Atkins and wife Joanne of Crowville, LA, daughter; Mary Ann Reed of Baskin, LA, sister-in-law; Virginia Sikes of Winnsboro, LA, nephew; Billy Joe Sikes and wife Jennifer of Dallas, TX, and numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Logan Atkins, Craig Atkins, Shiloh Atkins, Lathon Atkins, Robert Atkins, and George Ray Canady, Jr.

Visitation will be from 12:00 noon till time of service on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at Mulhearn Funeral Home in Winnsboro.