By Staff
March 31, 2004
Funeral services for Estill Akers were held Sunday, April 4 at 1:30 p.m. at Peck Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Allen Queen officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing.
Burial was in Oden Ridge Cemetery.
Mr. Akers died March 31, 2004, at Decatur General Hospital. He was born March 16, 1923, to Andy Akers and Alvie Roberts Akers. He was a member of the Macedonia Baptist Church at Oden Ridge.
He is survived by his wife, Connie Voncill Akers of Eva; five sons, Eddie Akers, Leroy Akers and Kenneth Akers, all of Eva, Estil Akers of Apopka, Fla., Samuel Akers of Decatur; two daughters, Cynthia Topash of Ypsilanti, Mich. and Anita Suszylo of Hartselle; two brothers, Curt Akers of Wayne, Mich. and Joe Akers of Cleveland, Ohio; five sisters, Zel Marie Greathouse of Ohio, Marie Alice Akers of Cleveland, Ohio, Ethell Thacker of Kentucky, Edna Kendrick of Kentucky and Willodean Flynn of Ohio; and eight grandchildren, Nicole Rikard, Joe Topash, Holly Suszylo, Crystal Akers, Melanie Topash, Eric Topash, Chris Suszylo and Isaish Akers.