Margaret Forsythe Elkins

Funeral services for Margaret Helen Forsythe Elkins, 81, will be held on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 4:00 PM in the chapel of Arrington Funeral Directors with Rev. Lonnie Sanders officiating. Burial will follow in Hollywood Cemetery. Margaret died on Saturday, July 16, 2011 at her residence.Margaret was born on March 8, 1930 in Gibson County, TN, the daughter of the late Thomas Forsythe and Loraine Hurt Forsythe. She attended Jackson City Schools and graduated from Jackson High School in 1948 and married her high school sweet heart H.N. ?Hot? Elkins on August 8, 1951. She was a member of West Jackson Baptist Church and dearly loved her church family and her Harriet Coburn Sunday school class. Margaret loved traveling and bass fishing with her husband.She was preceded in death by her parents, one son, Michael Neil Elkins, two sisters, Mary Nell Word of Jackson and Shirley Ann Leonard of Fort Smith, AR.Survivors include her husband of sixty years, Hot Elkins of Jackson; one son, David W. Bowen and wife Karyn, and grandson, Jeffery Bowen all of Gibson County and two granddaughters, Sara Elkins Rogers and Priscilla McNeal both of Cordova, TN.Pallbearers will be Curtis Mansfield, Marty Coleraine, Dick Brown, Bill Preslar, Sam Hall and Jim Dyer.Honorary pallbearers will be Tom Turner, Danny Waynick, Bill McDaniel, Paul Phillips, Bobby Henderson and Bill Whisel and the members of the Harriet Coburn Sunday school class.The family will be receiving friends on Tuesday, July 19, 2011 from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM prior to the service at Arrington Funeral Directors.In lieu of flowers the family is requesting that memorials be directed to West Jackson Baptist Church, 580 Oil Well Road, Jackson, TN 38305 or to the Shriners Hospital Transportation Fund, c/o Al Chymia Shrine Center, 5770 Shelby Oaks Dr. 38134.Arrington Funeral Directors148 W. University Parkway731/ 668-1111www.arringtonfuneralgroup.com