Virginia “Ginger” Jones Blessing Akin

Evans Funeral Home of Jefferson announces the death of Mrs. Virginia Jones Blessing Akin, age 78 of Jefferson, Georgia, who passed away on Thursday, August 14, 2025. Mrs. Akin was born in 1947 in El Centro, California, to the late Bill Jones and the late Dollie Virginia Tutle Jones. She was the adopted daughter of the late Henry Hudson Jones and the late Valdine Harless Jones. Mrs. Akin was raised in Houston, Texas and worked in accounting and office management in various companies in Houston. She moved to Jefferson, Georgia in 2003, where she retired from Southeastern Landscape Company in 2011 and attended Faith Baptist Church. In addition to her parents, Mrs. Akin was preceded in death by her husbands, Richard Emmett Blessing in 2016 and Robert Lee Akin Sr in 2021, her grandson, Jospeh Isaac Blessing, brother, Lee Wilson, and her sisters, Marie Calvin, Jean Lewis and Jewell Mae Bruner.

Survivors include her daughter, Melissa Exum of South Carolina ; sons, Carl Wayne Blessing, Athens, GA, Jeffrey Dean Blessing and his wife Tamara of Magnolia, TX, Robert Akin II and his wife Sandy of Nicholson, GA; brothers, Ronald Dean Jones and his wife Susan of Orange, TX, Tom Reinke and his wife Carol of Texas; sisters, Wilma Taylor and her husband James of Knoxville, AR and Amelia Beatty of Waco, TX; numerous grandchildren, great-grandchildren , nieces, nephewsand cousins also survive.

A Memorial Service will be held on Wednesday, September 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM in the Faith Baptist Church with Pastor Stephen Burrell officiating. The burial will follow in the Jackson Memorial Park in Commerce, Geogia.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the The Gideons International at  https://gideons.org/ 

Evans Funeral Home, Inc., 1350 Winder Highway, Jefferson, Georgia.  706-367-5467      

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