Marjorie W. (Scott) Atkins

Marjorie Scott Akins, 91, passed away peacefully on May 22, 2012.

She lived a long and wonderful life caring for her husband of 71 years, Sidney Junior Atkins, who died five days earlier. Marjorie leaves a son, Scottie and daughter-in-law Barbara of Southlake, Texas. She is preceded in death by her husband, Sidney Junior Atkins, her parents, a sister, Leticia Scott James of Leavenworth, KS, a brother, Martin Aker Scott of Trimble, MO, and a nephew, Robert S. James of Kansas City.

Marjorie was born August 8, 1920, to Martin Aker Scott and Cecil Homes Scott. She grew up near Smithville graduating in 1938. She attended the University of Missouri to study Home Economics. In 1941, Marjorie married her high school sweetheart, Sidney Junior Atkins, and began housekeeping for an extended time in the Smithville area. She was a life-long member of the Smithville United Methodist Church. She and Junior had resided at the Gower Convalescent Center for the past six months.

Marjorie enjoyed working with youth at schools in Smithville, then in North Kansas City High School, and retired from Oak Park High School after 17 years as secretary to the principal. She volunteered at Spelman Hospital, Smithville Elementary School and United Methodist Church for many years. Her hobbies were knitting, crocheting and quilting.

Marjorie and Junior "went to housekeeping" in 1943, living on several different farms in the Smithville area where Junior worked the fields. Marjorie was a wonderful school secretary and "school psychologist" for the Smithville High School, North Kansas City High School and Oak Park High School for over 30 years. She had an extended family of girls and boys whom she nurtured and who loved her as a second mother.

Visitation will be Friday, May 25, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. at Smithville United Methodist Church; funeral immediately following at 11:00. In lieu of flowers, the family would appreciate donations to the Smithville United Methodist Church, Community Ministries, P. O. Box 293, Smithville, MO 64089.

Arrangements: Hixson-Klein Funeral Home, Smithville