POPE––Joe L. Hankins, 83, died Saturday, August 6, 2016, at Merit Health in Batesville.

Services were held Saturday at new Providence M.B. Church in Water Valley. Pastor Albert Booker officiated. Burial was held in New Providence Church Cemetery. Cooley’s Mortuary had charge.
Hankins, born March 31, 1933, in Pope, to the late John and Osha Hankins, was a farmer and a member of New Providence M.B. Church.