Virginia Atkins Sinclair ~ Obituary

A graveside service for retired bank employee and former
Paris resident Virginia Atkins Sinclair of Cordova is
planned at 2 p.m. Sunday in Memorial Cemetery.

Family members will serve as pallbearers.

No visitation is planned. McEvoy Funeral Home is in
charge.

Sinclair, 85, died Thursday, Jan. 19, 2012, at Methodist
Hospice in Memphis.

Born in Paris on July 16, 1926, she was the daughter of
John Thomas Atkins and Cecil Radford Atkins, now both
deceased.

She was married on Dec. 29, 1951, to William Leslie
Sinclair, who died May 16, 1986.

Sinclair graduated from Grove High School and attended
business college. She worked and retired as a bookkeeper
from Paris Federal Savings and Loan in Paris. She had
lived in Memphis for the past 25 years. She was a member
of Saint Stevens United Methodist Church in Memphis,
where she served for several years as her Sunday school’s
class president.

She leaves Pam (Rick) Yewell, Muz, Denise and Saba
Alkahyab, Courtney Schultz, Andrew and Aespen Houston and
Briley Reaves, Randy, Brayden, Caegan and Corbin Yewell,
all of Memphis.

Memorials may be made to World Wildlife Fund, any Native
American charity or to the humane society of the donor’s
choice.

Reprinted from THE PARIS POST-INTELLIGENCER
Paris, Tennessee
January 20, 2012 Edition ~ Used by Permission