Joann Rosalia (Rosie) Adkins laid down to take her afternoon nap at her home in Gladewater, Tx and woke up in the arms of Jesus on Tuesday, April 14, 2026.

She was born on 4/21/1939 in the war-torn country of Russia to her natural parents Ferdinand & Helena Becker. She fled Russia along with her aunt, uncle and a cousin and spent some time at a displaced persons camp near Salzburg Austria before fleeing to America in 1952. They settled at a farm in Wiggins Colorado as a family. Over her lifetime, she was told numerous times that she should write a book of the trials and how they overcame such harsh beginnings. After working on the farm for 3 years to pay for their right to stay in the United States as legal residents, they moved to Chicago where she graduated from First Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran School in June 1955. After several years in Chicago, she moved back to Colorado then eventually made her way to East Texas in 1978 where she lived out a full, happy and joy-filled life surrounded by family and friends. She retired at the age of 85 from her profession as a seamstress (making homemade elaborate custom draperies). To say that she was hard working would be an understatement!

She is preceded in death by her adoptive parents, John & Helen Dobrinin and brother William "Bill" Becker, as well as her husband, Charles Wayne Adkins. She was never able to find her natural parents or siblings after leaving Russia. She is survived by her children, Heidi Borger, Keith & Anita Corbell, Monika Scherer and step daughter Rhonda Gail Warren, 10 grandchildren – Jennifer (Brett), Josef, Jason, Callie (Jamie), Richard (Yesibel), Kali and Kaori, 12 great grandchildren - Zoey, David, Dominic, Nevaeh, Jake, Molly Jo, Mila, Jaci, Theo, Darius, Santino and Angelino and 2 great great grandchildren - Geo and Adelaide.

She loved her flower beds and could grow anything! Her trick, taught to her by her mother, is that you have to "sing to them". She loved cooking for and spending time with her family - quality time was her love language. She especially loved going to church each Sunday as well as her weekly playdates with her great grandson, Jake.

A visitation will take place at The Church at West Mountain in Gilmer, Tx on Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 10am followed by a celebration of life ceremony at 11am.

Her final resting place will be at Roselawn Memorial Gardens, Mineola, Tx.

John 11:25-27 AMP

Jesus said to her, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life. Whoever believes in Me (as Savior) will live even if he dies; and everyone who lives and believes in Me will never die. Do you believe this?" She said to Him, "Yes, Lord; I have believed and continue to believe that You are the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of God, He who was (destined and promised) to come into the world (and it is for YOU that the world has waited)".