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Submitted: 5/21/23 • Approved: 5/22/23 • Last Updated: 5/25/23 • R1485937-G1485936-S3
William
February 27, 1922 - February 25, 2001
*Obituary
William "Joe" Akridge, 78, of Jacksonville died Sunday, Feb. 25, 2001, at his home. He was a member of West-Ark Church of Christ in Fort Smith, Fort Smith Sebastian Lodge No. 706, a 50-year member, and Western Arkansas Consistory, Scimitar Shrine and Bagman of Bagdad. Services will be held 2 p.m. today in Fentress Mortuary Chapel in Fort Smith with burial at Roselawn cemetery. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Donna Fosteen Akridge of Fort Smith. He is survived by his wife, Donna Akridge; one son, Harold Joe Akridge of Bella Vista; two stepsons, Danny and Gary Edwards of Paragould; one stepdaughter, Teresa Campbell of North Little Rock; one sister, Ruby Barton of Fayetteville, N.C.; one brother, John Wayne Akridge of Temucula, Calif.; one grandson, William Joe Akridge II of Navarre, Fla.; three great-grandchildren; and eight stepgrandchildren. Joe was a successful Retail Food Salesman in Arkansas beginning with Shipley Baking Company in 1942, General Mills Inc. with 25 years of service and retiring in 1979. He continued with Van Hook Brokeage Company and Dial Foods through 1996. Pallbearers will be Leroy Akridge Jr., Harold L. Wiggs, Leroy Akridge III, Johnny Bradley, Kenneth Wood, Hugh Akridge, and Charles Weir.
Donna
October 9, 1921 - February 22, 1989
Daughter of Omer Francis and Eula Bell Mott McDaniel
Photo courtesy of Frances Allen Titsworth
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