Mrs. Frankie Akers 

Services for Mrs. Frankie Marie Scobee Akers, 84, of 717 N. Jefferson St., Mexico, were held Wednesday, at 1:30 p.m. in the Arnold Funeral Home with the Rev. Ed Saferite officiating.  Burial was in East Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery. Mrs. Akers died Sunday at 6:42 p.m. in Audrain Medical Center. 

She was born in Monroe County on March 4, 1902, to James W. and Elizabeth Freeman Scobee.  She and Gilbert Floyd Akers were married in Paris on August 6, 1927, and he survives at the home. Survivors also include a niece, a nephew and several cousins. Mrs. Akers was preceded in death by one brother, Floyd Sterling Scobee of Idaho; and two sisters, Cleo Scobee of Paris and Eula May Varney of Las Cruces, New Mexico. 

She was a member of the Mexico United Methodist Church, the Order of the Eastern Star, Immanuel White Shrine, Grand Cross of Color, and for many years assisted with the Rainbow Girls.  She had been a school teacher in Iowa and for several years in Paris. 


Source: Darla Henderson, from an obituary collection saved by her grandmother, Frances Kathleen (Scobee) Henderson.