Mrs. Allie Garner Akins

December 3, 1910 - June 14, 2016

Mrs. Allie Mae Garner Akins, age 105 of Aragon, Georgia passed away Tuesday, June 14, 2016. Mrs. Akins was born December 3, 1910 in Haralson County, daughter of the late John W. Garner and the late Dovie Mae Cheatwood Garner. She was a member of the Piney Woods Baptist Church. Mrs. Akins started as a cook at the Yellow Jacket Café and went on to retire after many years with Mildred’s Café. Mrs. Akins was preceded in death by her first husband, John T. Holcomb, Sr.; three sisters, Lizzie Mae Worthington, Elizabeth Adams and Louise Hopper; brother, James R. Garner; granddaughter, Patricia Diane Moore; and great-granddaughter, Libby Hyde. Survivors include her husband Aurther Akins of Aragon; daughter, Julie Edna Holcomb of Canton; son, John Thomas Holcomb of Aragon; two brothers, Richard A. Garner of Union City and Willie Frank Garner of Fayetteville; sister, Mattie Carroll of Brooks, GA; eleven grandchildren; numerous great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday evening, June 16th between the hours of 6:00 and 8:00 p.m. Funeral services for Mrs. Akins will be held on Friday, June 17th at 4:00 p.m. in the chapel of the Freeman Harris Funeral Home with Rev. Jason Suits and Rev. Gary Ingram officiating. Interment services will follow in the family lot of the Piney Woods Baptist Church Cemetery. The following gentlemen will serve as pallbearers: Larry Holcomb, Jr., Robert Combs, Jason Holcomb, Eddie Hyde, Travis Yarbrough and John Presley. Honorary pallbearers will be: Chad Combs, Charles Jacobs, Edward Holcomb, Jr., Michael Hall, T. J. Presley, Brian Moore, Shane Moore and Brandon Pope. Freeman Harris Funeral home is in charge of the funeral services for Mrs. Allie Mae Garner Akins.