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Paula H. Akin

April 2, 1936 — June 18, 2012

Paula H. Akin, age 76, departed this life on June 18, 2012. She was a devoted Mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother. Paula had an uncanny zest about her and never met a stranger. She touched people's lives in a way only she could. Paula was born April 02, 1936 in Bronx, New York to the union of Ruth and Stanley Hansill. The family soon would relocate to Jamaica, West Indies where she received her early education. She, along with one of her sisters, came back to the United States in 1949 where she settled in Greensboro, North Carolina. She met and married Lonnie McAdoo. From that, union came two children, Cynthia and Lonnie James McAdoo. In 1960 she relocated to Urbancrest, Ohio where she met and married Dan Akin; and from that union there were three children, Jacquie, Gary and Ellen. Paula retired from Lucent Technologies in 2001, after 32 years of service. She is preceded in death by her parents, Stanley and Ruth Hansill; husband, Dan Akin; sisters, Evelyn Messam and Rose Triplett. She leaves to mourn daughters, Cynthia McAdoo, Jacquie Akin­Sawyer and Ellen Akin; sons, Lonnie McAdoo and Gary (Michelle) Akin; sister, Miriam Hansill; grandchildren, Javon Fitzgerald (Coetina), Gary and Lakeya Washington, Shelby Harris, Sheldon Akin and Jayla Sawyer; great grandchildren, India and Jordan Fitzgerald, Trinity, Brooklyn, Jordan, Keyion and Kaleya Washington; special sister-in-law, Roberta Akin. A special thanks to loyal friend Michael Paige and (adopted son) Tracy Penn.

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