August 26, 1948 - January 11, 2024
The memorial services celebrating and honoring the life of L. Dale Adkins, 75, of Waukomis will be held 11:00 A.M. Friday January 19, 2024 in the Willow View Church with Pastor Mark McAdow officiating. The service will be live-streamed on the Brown-Cummings Funeral Home Facebook Page. Complete cremation care and services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings, A life celebration home.
Dale was born August 26, 1948, to James and Joan Adkins in Enid, Oklahoma and passed from this life January 11, 2024, in Major County, Oklahoma.
He was raised and educated in Enid, on his family’s farms in Mulhall and Garber and graduated from Garber High School with the class of 1966. Immediately after graduating he attended Oklahoma State University before he began working for an auto repair shop in Garber. He then attended night classes at Phillips University. In 1976 he and Jeff Mills founded APR (Automotive Performance Research) which they owned and operated together until Jeff’s retirement, about ten years ago. APR has been in operation for over forty years until the time of Dale’s death. Away from business his passion was hunting deer, turkey, elk, antelope, and coyote control. He was a member of the FNRA and the GCRA serving in leadership roles, and he got a ten point buck the evening that he passed away. He also had a strong belief in the second amendment. He will be missed by his family, friends, and customers.
He is survived by his wife, J. Ann Adkins, his mother Joan Adkins, of Garber; his son, Clinton James Adkins and wife Leah, and son Ross, of Enid, OK; his daughter, Kimberly Ann Adkins of Amsterdam, Netherlands; grandson Draven Adkins and wife, Kimmy, and their son, Tobias, of Yukon, OK; Annie's son, Daniel Truskett of Waukomis, OK, Annie's daughter, Christy Koeberle, her husband Mark, and their children, Conley, Kaeden, and Deacon, all of Thibodaux, LA.; and his former wife Sherry Summers, of Enid.
He was preceded in death by his father James Adkins.
Memorials may be made in his honor to the Cherokee Strip Friends of the NRA, Garfield County Rifle Association, or the Enid SPCA with Brown-Cummings Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds.
Obituaries are posted, in part, due to the generosity of The Commons.
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