Wilma Lee Eakins, loving wife, mother and grandmother, of Blackwell, Oklahoma, died Tuesday evening, September 20, 2011 in the Mercy Health Center in Oklahoma City at the age of 80 years.

Wilma Lee Eakins was born on September 16, 1931, in Blackwell, Oklahoma, to Carl A. and Lora C. (Kelle) Metz. She attended Independence School north of Blackwell and graduated from Blackwell High School in 1949. She furthered her education by attending Northern Oklahoma College in Tonkawa. She married Donald L. "Bud" Eakins on January 1, 1952 in Blackwell, and the settled on the farm northeast of Nardin, Oklahoma, where she helped her husband with the farming operation, including cooking meals for all the family and farmhands. He preceded her in death on February 4, 2008. She served as a cook at the Nardin Elementary School and later retired as a cook in the Blackwell Public School system. She was a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church, Women's Missionary League and assisted the Lutheran World Relief by making quilts. She also held membership in the Oklahoma Home and Community Education (OHCE), Giggle Girls lunch group, Friends of Nardin and the Mt. Olive Cemetery Board. She enjoyed caring for flowers and sewing for her family.

She is survived by two sons, Richard Eakins and his wife Sherri of Nardin, Oklahoma, and Tom Eakins of Blackwell, Oklahoma; two daughters: Donna Price of Edmond, Oklahoma and Kelle Simmons of Yukon, Oklahoma; three brothers: Lawrence Metz and his wife Mary, Myron Metz and his wife Joan and Albert Metz; ten grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.

She was also preceded in death by her parents; and one daughter Barbara Hilton.

Services are scheduled for 2:00 p.m., Saturday, September 24th in the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Ryan Eakins of Rubottom First Baptist Church in Rubottom, Oklahoma, officiating. Burial will follow in the Mt. Olive Cemetery in Nardin, Oklahoma.

Honorary casketbearers will be Roger Clark, Chuck Tiemann, Bill Wilson, Mary Thompson, Madelien Reutter and Gavin Sneath.

Casketbearers will be Greg Hilton, Ryan Eakins, Ben Price, Carson Simmons, Paul Kerr, John Smith and Scott Smith.

A memorial has been established in her honor with the Hospice of North Central Oklahoma and the Carson Simmons College Fund c/o Roberts and Son Funeral Home, 120 West Padon, Blackwell, Oklahoma 74631.