Laura Eakins

SIKESTON, Mo. -- Funeral for Laura L. Eakins of Sikeston will be held at 10 a.m. today at Ponder Funeral Home. The Rev. Dolan Rogers will officiate. Burial will be in Cape County Memorial Park in Cape Girardeau.

Eakins, 87, died Saturday, Sept. 15, 2001, at Miner Nursing Center.

She was born Nov. 3, 1913, in Cape Girardeau, daughter of Albert C. and Hulda C. Erickson Dittlinger. She married Paul Roscoe Eakins, who died in October 1990.

Eakins owned and operated Eakins Plaza. She attended Chapel by the Lake.

Survivors include a son, Randy Eakins of Sikeston; a daughter, Patricia Newman of Sikeston; two grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son.