Iris Pearl Coombs

1918-2011 · Winfield KS

Born 1918, Winfield, Kansas

Died 2011

Father: Everett Coleman Coombs

Mother: Pearl Frances Jones

Children include Donald

Iris Pearl Coombs was born on 13 September 1918 at Winfield, Kansas, the daughter of Everett C. Coombs and Pearl Frances Jones. Her father was a Missouri-born farmer of Liberty Township who had buried a first wife's marriage behind him in Arkansas; her mother came from Glencoe in the Oklahoma Territory. Two infant brothers, Carl in 1914 and Junior in 1933, did not live, and she had a sister, Anita. She was raised and schooled in Cowley County.

On 29 September 1937, at nineteen, she married Carl E. Askins at Hackney. They made their home in the Winfield area, where she kept house and helped on the family farm. Donald was born in 1938, Geraldine in 1941, Lila in 1944, and Wayne. Later she went to work as a nurse's aide at St. Mary's, and then at William Newton Hospital in Winfield until she retired in 1977.

She was a member of the Millington Street Baptist Church. She painted, crocheted, sewed, camped and travelled, and wintered with Carl in south Texas and Arizona. Her son Donald died in 2000, her son-in-law Jerry Platter, her grandsons Leland Askins and Kevin Palmer, and her sister Anita Miller.

Iris died on the evening of Tuesday 18 January 2011 at Fairview Regional Medical Center, Fairview, Oklahoma, aged 92, with Carl still living. The funeral was at Miles Funeral Service on 25 January, Brother K.B. Murray, retired, officiating; the casket bearers were Brad, Jeff and Mike Askins, Brison and Mark Palmer and Steve Platter, and the honorary bearers Billey, Carl, Keith and Kris Askins, Cameron Brockman, Erin and Jason Helm, Jon and Josh Jacobs and Adam Wallace. Memorials were for the Millington Street Baptist Church. She is buried at Highland Cemetery. Carl followed her in February.

Parents

Pearl Frances Jones 1893-1944 Everett Coleman Coombs 1889-1961

Children

Donald E. Askins 1938-2000

Sources

Find a Grave, memorial 64427524, Iris Pearl Coombs Askins; photograph added by delkan, 19 January 2011.

Wichita Eagle, about 21 September 2000, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 32181996.

Find a Grave, memorial 65552494, Carl Edmond Askins, Highland Cemetery, Winfield; photograph by Joe Chrisman, 21 December 2011.

Miles Funeral Service, Winfield, obituary, February 2011, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 65552494; Cowley CourierTraveler, service report, February 2011.

Miles Funeral Service, Winfield, obituary, January 2011, transcribed on Find a Grave memorial 64427524; Cowley CourierTraveler, 20 and 27 January 2011.

Blackwell Journal-Tribune, Blackwell, Oklahoma, Sunday 13 August 1961, p. 1; clipping posted on Find a Grave memorial 91870210.

Obituary, Miles Funeral Service, January 2011 (Find a Grave memorial 64427524); Cowley CourierTraveler, 20 and 27 January 2011; Find a Grave memorials 91870210 (her father) and 80024792 (her mother).

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