DPS Trooper to Be Remembered Friday
Posted/updated on: July 2, 2013 at 5:30 pm
TERRELL — The funeral will be held later this week for a DPS trooper from East Texas. Authorities say Senior Trooper Rex Akin, 67, died of a heart attack Saturday night in Terrell. Funeral arrangements for Trooper Akin are being made for this Friday. Officials say he was a 38-year veteran with the department, and Akin was well-known for giving self-defense tips to female truckers at the Great American Trucking Shows. Trooper Akin’s son is also a DPS trooper, in Wood County.
