SHEPHERDSTOWN, West Virginia
Riley Franklin DOBBINS, III, DDS
1942 — 2023
Dr. Riley Franklin Dobbins, DDS, spirit returned unto God who gave it on October 20, 2023, while he was at MedStar Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C. after a lengthy illness. Dr. Dobbins was born on April 14, 1942, in Louisville, Kentucky very shortly after the death of his father Riley Franklin Dobbins, II. Riley's mother, Dorothy Maynard Akers Dobbins, took her infant son to Mullins, WV to be with her parents Walter Herndon and Osie Leonard Akers to be in their care while she returned to Marshall College, Huntington, WV to complete her teaching degree in 1945. Riley thrived with his grandparents for 4+ years, who had yearned for a son. Dorothy met and married Ronald Bruce...