Clara M. Akers, 84


Clara Marie Akers, 84, of Elkton, died Wednesday, Dec. 30, 2009, at Avante Nursing Home in Harrisonburg, Va.

She was born April 26, 1925, in Rockingham County, and was the daughter of the late Monroe Calvin and Carrie Hanes Dovel.

She worked as a seamstress with Rockingham Sleepwear and also was a member of St. Peter's United Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Hansel Akers, on Nov. 28, 2006.

Her surviving family includes brothers, Lynwood Dovel and Layton Dovel, both of Elkton; sisters, Irene Hughes of Elkton, Margaret Sipe of Inwood, W.Va., and Maxine Day, also of Elkton; and devoted friends that she loved, Halley and Jackson Cole, along with other extended family and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 4, 2010, at the Kyger Funeral Home Chapel in Elkton with the Rev. Jimmy Kite officiating. Burial will follow in the Eastlawn Memorial Gardens in Harrisonburg.

The family received friends at the Elkton funeral home Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. and at other times at the family's residence on Newton Road in Elkton.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Elkton Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 152, Elkton, VA 22827.

Online condolences may be sent to the Akers family at www.kygers.com.