Name: Dobyns, Velma Beatrice(Hawkins)
Burial Date: 2000, 10/31
Age at Death: 90
Plot Location: 887 F
Notes: wife of Chester Willard

STERLING – Velma B. Dobyns, 90, died Oct. 27, 2000, at Sterling Presbyterian Manor.

She was born March 4, 1910, at Raymond, the daughter of Harry and Cassandra Shipler Hawkins. A lifetime resident of Sterling, she was a homemaker, employee of the former Sterling Ice Cream Co., and former employee of the Sterling City Office.

She belonged to United Methodist Church at Sterling.

On Jan. 23, 1943, she married Chester Dobyns at Sauna He died Sept. 2, 1981.

Survivors include two sisters, Doris Nichols, Grants Pass, Ore., and Achsah Fly, Conroe, Texas; several nephews and nieces.

Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Sterling Community Cemetery, with the Rev. James Graves, presiding. Friends may call from 1 to 5 p.m. Monday at Sillin Funeral Home, Sterling.

Memorials may be sent to the church, in care of the funeral home.

Birth:	Mar. 4, 1910 Raymond Rice County Kansas, USA
Death:	Oct. 27, 2000 Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA
Age 90Family links: Parents: Harry Hawkins (1877 – 1951) Cassandra Maude Shipler Hawkins (1885 – 1960)Spouse: Chester Willard Dobyns (1904 – 1981)*Siblings: Melville Newton Hawkins (1904 – 1982)* Lawrence Harry Hawkins (1906 – 1979)* Victor Harold Hawkins (1908 – 1983)* Velma Beatrice Hawkins Dobyns (1910 – 2000) Carl Elliot Hawkins (1912 – 1985)* Achsah Hawkins Fly (1914 – 2004)* Willard Marion Hawkins (1916 – 1987)* Wathena Geraldine Hawkins Miller (1920 – 1963)**Calculated relationship
Burial: Sterling Cemetery Sterling Rice County Kansas, USA Plot: 887 F
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