Della Adkisson

Della Adkisson Mrs. Della Mai Potts Adkisson, 74, resident of Leipers Creek Road, died Tuesday, April 13, 2004 at NHC of Columbia. Funeral services will be conducted at 11 a.m., Friday at Elmore Church of the Nazarene with Rev. Ronnie Johnson, Rev. Gary Fewell and Rev. Ken Andrews officiating. Burial will be in Potts Cemetery. The family will visit with friends Thursday from 4 -8p.m. at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Maury County native was the daughter of the late Rollie Potts and Bessie Hutcherson Potts. She was married for fifty-five years to Thomas Gray Adkisson, Jr. who preceded her in death March 7, 2004. She was a homemaker and member of Elmore Church of the Nazarene where she taught Sunday School for over fifty years. Survivors include one daughter, Bessie Ann (Danny) Ford of Columbia; two sons, Dean (Mary Jane) Adkisson of Santa Fe, Randell (Nancy) Adkisson of Thompson Station; five brothers, James (Ruby) Potts of Columbia, Wallace Potts of Leipers Fork, Roy (Melvie) Potts of Santa Fe, Mac (Shirley) Potts of Theta, Emerson (Paulette) Potts of Water Valley; two sisters, Helen (Boyd) Malugin, Daisy (Fred) McCord both of Santa Fe; and step-mother, Ruth Potts, who raised her. She was preceded in death by a sister, Gladys Louise Brooks. Pallbearers will be Timmy Malugin, Tony Malugin, Andrew Brooks, Kenneth Potts, Jerrell Potts, Landon "Squeeze" Adams, William Andrews and Frank Jones.