"Bertha Marie Harless Adkins-Dillon" Born February 23, 1905 in Cabell County, West Virginia, a daughter of James and Pearlie Adkins Harless and a granddaughter of Enos "Witcher" Adkins and Mary Jane Bradshaw Adkins, Bertha Marie Harless Adkins-Dillon is the only survivor of eleven children of James and Pearlie. She has two half sisters, Letha Mills and Norma Nash and one half brother, James William Harless, who are children of James and Della Crank Harless. These sisters and brother are living in the Huntington area. As a young child Bertha lived in Huntington and later moved to Bowen Creek. There she met and married Abner Adkins of Raccoon Creek. They made their home on Raccoon Creek, where four children were born. These children were Reda Mae, Audelene, Nera Geraldine and Oval Harold Adkins. Abner and one daughter, Audelene Adkins Feeser is deceased. Her second husband, Ainsworth Dillon is also deceased, there were no children born of this marriage. Abner Adkins was employed in coal mines of Logan County. Abner and Bertha lived in Logan County for several years, where Bertha managed a boarding house. They moved back to Raccoon Creek, but Abner worked in the Logan mines until his death on May 13, 1945, when he died in a slate fall in a Logan County coal mine. Bertha was employed by Owens Illinois Glass Factory and many sewing factories. She also worked for Huntington Chair, where she worked in the upholstery department. She worked as a waitress in restaurants and baby sat for years in the Huntington area. She moved to California in 1971 where she was employed as an apartment manager of a fourteen-unit apartment building for 23 years. She retired when she was 91 years old. She is still living in Tracy, California where she maintains her own apartment alone. Two of her children live in Tracy and one daughter lives in Washington State. Bertha had four children, seventeen grandchildren, thirty great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren. At the age of ninety-two and one half she traveled to Huntington by air to attend the eleventh family reunion of Adkins and Harless. She was accompanied by one daughter "Tiny" Adkins Harper, one grandson Bill "Butch" Harper and two great-granddaughters, Taran and Sara Harper, who live in Calfornia. Bertha's hobbies are bowling, sewing, gardening, and traveling. by Nera "Tiny" Harper Bertha Dillon - March 14, 2002 TRACY, Calif. - Bertha M. Dillon, 97, a resident of Tracy, Calif. for the past 30 years, died Thursday, March 14, 2002, at New Hope Care Center in Tracy.She was born Feb. 23, 1905, in Cabell County, W.Va., She lived there until moving to Tracy, where she managed an apartment house.Mrs. Dillon was a frequent visitor to Copalis Beach to visit her daughters.She is survived by two daughters, Reda M. Nichols of Copalis Beach and Nera G. Harper of Tracy; a son, Bud Adkins of Manteca, Calif.; a half-sister, Letha Ann Mills of W. Va.; a half-brother, James Harless, Jr. of Huntington, W. Va; 17 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; 16 great-great-grandchildren; one great-great-great-great-grandchild and one adopted grandson.Two husbands, Abner Adkins and Ainsworth Dillon, a daughter Audelene A. Feeser and 12 brothers and sisters died before her.Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m., Wednesday, March 20 and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Thursday at the Coleman Mortuary.A graveside service will follow at 2 p.m. Thursday at Sunset Memorial Park in Hoquiam Submitted by Dale Pratt (dalepratt@netacs.net)