LAWRENCE EDWARD "EDDIE" AKIN
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Lawrence Edward "Eddie" Akin, age 66, resident of 203 No. Eddy, Fort Scott, Kansas, died Monday, June 29, 2009, at the Landmark Hospital in Joplin, Missouri. He was born July 26, 1942, in Wichita, Kansas, the son of Rudolph Carlton Akin and Melba Evelyn Epler Akin. Eddie was a veteran of the United States Army serving in the Vietnam War. He was a 1960 graduate of Fort Scott High School and a 1964 graduate of Pittsburg State University with a degree in Economics and History. Eddie was retired from the City of Fort Scott street and water department. He was a member of the Zion Methodist Church and a member of the Olson Frary Burkhart Post #1165 Veterans of Foreign Wars.