February 4, 1947~November 7, 2024

Chickasha, OK

A come-and-go Celebration of Life for LeAnn Janet Akins, 77, of Chickasha, will be held from 1:00 p.m. until 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 7, 2024, at Ferguson Funeral Home. It will be a time to gather, give honor, and share memories of LeAnn with the family.

LeAnn Janet (Soulier) Akins was born February 4, 1947, in Norfolk, Nebraska to Leonard “Shorty” Soulier and Vera Janet (Larson) Soulier. She passed from this life on Sunday, November 3, 2024, in Chickasha, Oklahoma.

LeAnn grew up mostly in Chickasha and attended Chickasha schools.

On June 12, 1963, she married Dennis Ray Akins in Randlett, Texas and they shared 60 years together.

LeAnn made blankets and quilted for all the kids. She enjoyed crafting and spent many hours cross-stitching. She liked to bake and was well known for her chocolate mayonnaise cake. She was a bit ornery. She helped Dennis with the cars in the shop and learned to sand them and upholstered many of them. She was devoted to her grandkids and babysat them at one time or another.

She was preceded in death by her father Shorty Soulier, her mother Vera Runnels, and her husband Dennis in January 2024.

Loved ones left to remember her are her son and daughter-in-law Eric and Cindy Akins of Chickasha; daughter and son-in-law Renee and Darrel Nieto of Chickasha; two sisters Judy Smith of Inola and Joan Judd of Round Rock, Texas; grandchildren Tommy Brown and wife Summer, Chance Akins, Carson Akins and fiancée Jaylee, Abigail Williams and husband Corey, and Danielle Mitchell; five great-grandchildren; and other extended family and friends.

The Celebration of Life and cremation arrangements are under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home.