| Graduation Year | Class of 1960 |
| Date of Passing | Jan 22, 2019 |
| About | Rita J. Akers, 76, of Zanesville, died at 12:13 P.M. on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, at Genesis Hospital, Zanesville. She was born September 2, 1942, in Zanesville, a daughter of the late Donald and Rita LaMay Pettry. She retired from Brockway Glass after twenty-two years of service. Rita was a passionate, loving, person and was known as “such a sweet woman”. She never met a stranger and let her family know each and every day the love that she felt for them. She had the most gentle of hearts with an amazing spirit of strength. She is survived by her husband of twenty-nine years, JR Akers whom she married November 20, 1989; three daughters, Rhonda Watts, Marsha (William) Macenko, and Juni (Steve) Runkle; three sons, Don (Kelly) Riley, Mike (Hope) Riley, and Mathew (Alicia) Akers; twenty grandchildren, thirteen great-grandchildren; and many nieces, nephews, and cousins. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her first husband, Ronald E. Riley, who passed in 1982 and a grandson, Xian Akers. She will be laid to rest at Woodlawn Cemetery, Zanesville. |
