Atkins Chrismon

Reidsville - Colleen Atkins Chrismon, 78, of 1912 Belmont Drive, died on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, at Moses Cone Hospital. Graveside funeral services will be held 10:00 AM, Friday, March 13, 2009, at Reidlawn Cemetery. The pallbearers will be Price Watt, Tommy Smothers, Ian McKinney, Jason Chrismon, Billy Coleman, Glenn Bacon, Tony Nichols and Jerry Lawson. The honorary pallbearers will be the Men's Fellowship of Congregational Christian Church. Mrs. Chrismon was born in Rockingham County to the late Clint and Elsie Todd Atkins. She was a homemaker and was preceded in death by her husband Roy Garland Chrismon. She is survived by her son, Michael Chrismon and Jo Marie McKinney of Reidsville; grandchildren, Sascha Watkins and Jason Chrismon; great grandchildren, Caitlin and Noah Leonard; sisters-in-law, Rebecca Rakestraw and husband, Watson and Patricia Kopko and husband, Robert; Aunt, Zylvia Grissom; nieces, Susan Allen and Missy Zanardelli; nephews, Tommy Rakestraw and Scott Rakestraw and many special friends. The family will receive friends Thursday, March 12 at Wilkerson Funeral Home from 6-8 PM. Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice of Rockingham County, PO Box 281, Wentworth, NC 27375.