Ronald L. Eakin
Ronald L. Eakin passed away Dec. 2 due to a short illness.
He was born July 28, 1940, in Butler, and was a son of the late Earl E. Eakin and the late Marjorie Eakin.
He lived in the small town of Prospect until the age of 13, when the family moved to Butler, where he graduated from high school in 1958.
He then went on to Penn State University, graduating in 1963. While at Penn State, he was a football manager, worked in the sports department of the campus radio station and was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity.
After a brief career in radio, he was employed by the Internal Revenue Service in Pittsburgh. In 1967, he left the IRS to attend the American University Washington College of Law, graduating in 1970.
The District of Columbia Court of Appeals offered him the opportunity to become the first motions clerk. After six months on the job, the Honorable John Worth Kern III, associate judge of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, selected him to be his law clerk. During this time, he relocated to Manassas Va., where he eventually entered the private practice of law, which he continued for 46 years.
In Manassas, he was a member and past president of the Manassas Battlefield Kiwanis Club and was an elder in the Manassas Presbyterian Church.
He is survived by his wife, Nita of Manassas; his daughter, Cynthia Cann, and her husband, Steve, of Alexandria, Va.; a son, Mark, and his partner, Lori Reed, of Manassas; a stepson, Michael Sloper, and his wife, Jennifer Sloper, of Simpsonville S.C.; a sister, Susan Must of Manassas; a niece, Casey Simpson; a nephew, Josh Must; and a sister-in-law, Mary Beth Eakins of Jacksonville, Fla.
He is also survived by his grandchildren, Halle and Taylor Cann of Alexandria; and his step-grandchildren, Carson and Bennett Sloper of Simpsonville.
In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a brother, James Earl Eakin, and a sister, Janice Eakin Campbell.
EAKIN — Services for Ronald L. Eakin, who died Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at the Manassas Presbyterian Church, 8201 Ashton Ave., Manassas, Va.In lieu of flowers, donations can be sent to the church in memory of Ronald L. Eakin or donations can be sent to the Serve Program of NVFS, 10056 Dean Drive, Manassas, VA 20110.Condolences may be sent to www.piercefh.com.
