JAY E. EAKINS

JACKSON -- Graveside service for Jay E. Eakins of Toulon, Ill., was held Friday at Fairview Cemetery in Millersville. Hammitt Funeral Home in Princeville, Ill., was in charge of arrangements.

Eakins, 64, died Wednesday, April 21, 1993, at the home of a daughter in Lacon, Ill.

He was born March 15, 1929, at Jackson, son of Troy and Maine Slinkard Eakins.

Eakins was employed by Sante Fe Railroad for 14 years and also was a truck driver.

He is survived by a son, William Eakins of Lacon; two daughters, Cynthia Eakins of Lacon, Laticia Hummer of Chillicothe, Ill.; a brother, Norman Eakins of Kankakee, Ill.; two sisters, Doris Smith of Gordonville, Dottie Roberts of St. Louis, and five grandchildren.