Elvie C Hawkins

The funeral for Elvie Lorene Cleveland Kelley Hawkins, 94, of Athens will be at 2 p.m. Friday at McConnell Funeral Home with Mark Johnson (grandson) and Mitch McCormick officiating. Burial will be in Sandlin Cemetery.

Visitation will be from 6-8 tonight at the funeral home.

She died Wednesday, Jan. 12, 2011, at Athens Convalescent Center.

Mrs. Hawkins was born April 29, 1916, in Limestone County to Eli Johnson Cleveland and Rosie Lee Hill Cleveland. She worked in the cafeteria at West Limestone High School for 14 years and at Jackson Memorial Hospital dietary for seven years.

Mrs. Hawkins was active in local government through writing letters to the editors of local papers, congressmen and senators. She was active in church as long as her health permitted. She was a member of Salem Springs Baptist Church.

Mrs. Hawkins was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands, Milton Kelley and Monroe Hawkins; son, Tim Kelley; grandsons, Allan Dale Kelley and Rickey Tribble; sister, Mamie Greene; half sisters, Della Pugh and Sallie Hardaway; brother, Grover Cleveland; and half brother, Lee Cleveland.

She is survived by her sons, Allan Kelley of Walls, Miss., Johnny Hawkins of Athens; daughters, Faye Kelley Cagle and Virginia Kelley Johnson, both of Athens; stepdaughter, Bessie Hawkins Jackson of Lester; sister, Elsie Kelley of Athens; grandchildren, Peggy Cook, Mike Tribble, Beth Bates, Kim Baucom, Joey Kelley, Ginna Honeycut, Terri Sykes, Tommy Kelley, Mark Johnson, Vicki Bumpus, Kelley Cornelius, Amy Shindorf, Tammy Hyatt, Jeremy Hawkins and Whitney Hawkins; step-grandchildren, Kevin Jackson and Hollye Hatfield; 43 great-grandchildren; and 23 great-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Mike Tribble, Joey Kelley, Tommy Kelley, Jeremy Hawkins, Mark Johnson and Scott Shindorf. Honorary pallbearers are the rest of her grandchildren, not mentioned above, and her great-grandchildren.