Fred Lee Hawkins Sr

Mr. Fred Lee Hawkins, Jr., 83, retired foreign missionary, historical researcher, and resident of Pawnee Trail, died Friday, September 8, 2006 at Maury Regional Hospital. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 1:00 p.m. at Northside Baptist Church with Rev. John Rushing and Rev. Elmer Crosby officiating. Burial will be in Rock Springs Cemetery. The family will visit with friends after 3:00 p.m. Sunday at Oakes & Nichols and after 11:00 a.m. Monday at the church. Memorials may be made to the Building Fund of Northside Baptist Church, 127 Theta Pike, Columbia 38401. Notes of sympathy may be sent to www.oakesandnichols.com. A native of Rockingham, North Carolina, he was son of the late Fred Lee Hawkins, Sr. and Georgia Etta Payne Hawkins. He attended Gaston County, North Carolina public schools and graduated from Lowell High School in Lowell, North Carolina. He was a graduate of Carson-Newman College in Jefferson City, Tennessee; Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas; and Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina. Mr. Hawkins held the position of Minister of Music and Religious Education at Immanuel Baptist Church, Knoxville; First Baptist Church, Clinton; Calvary Baptist Church, Fort Worth, Texas; and Centerview Baptist Church, Kannapolis, North Carolina. For 30 years, he served in Brazil as a Foreign Missionary under the auspices of the Southern Baptist Foreign Mission Board. While in Brazil, he held the positions of Director of Sunday School Department, Sunday School Board, Administrator of Palma Baptist Assembly, Business Manager of South Brazil Baptist Mission and Coordinator of All-Brazil Relief Ministries. Mr. Hawkins moved to Columbia to make his home in 1985 and since that time served as deacon, music director, and teacher at Northside Baptist Church, and member of the Middle Tennessee Baptist Missionary Fellowship.He was active in the affairs of the Maury County Historical Society and worked as a volunteer computer operator on the Maury County Loose Records Project since 1992. His interest in history and genealogy led him to compile and publish the following: MAURY COUNTY, TENNESSEE CEMETERIES; HARDISON AND ALLIED FAMILIES; and ONE HAWKINS FAMILY.His wife of 51 years, Mariruth Barker Hawkins, died September 27, 1998. Survivors include a daughter, Deborah Hawkins (Michael) Howell of Grier, South Carolina; sons, David Lee (Bonnie) Hawkins, Pilot Mountain, North Carolina, William Paul (Paula) Hawkins of Camden, James Gordon Hawkins of Columbia, John Franklin (Kimberly) Hawkins of Atlanta, Georgia; sisters, Mollie Hawkins (James) High of Ranlo, North Carolina; Shirley Hawkins (Kelley) Elmore of Rock Hill, South Carolina, Vanda (Wayne) Hager of Stanley, North Carolina; brother, Raymond V. Hawkins of Lewisville, North Carolina; ten grandchildren; two great- granddaughters.Deacons and member of the Pair and Spares Sunday School Class of Northside Baptist Church will serve as pallbearers.