Memorial services for Cynthia Doolittle Harkins are Saturday, July 18, 2015, at the Kappa Sigma fraternity house at 266 West Road on the Ole Miss campus where she most recently served as their beloved housemother.

Mrs. Harkins died on Friday, May 29, 2015, after her battle with cancer.
She was born at King’s Daughters Hospital in Brookhaven on June 12, 1952 to Spivey Newton Doolittle and Dorothy Summers Doolittle.
Cindy spent her childhood in Brookhaven and graduated from Brookhaven High School. She continued her education at the University of Mississippi where she graduated in 1974. At Ole Miss she served as president of Pi Beta Phi Fraternity for Women. She taught high school in Greenville and later became an account executive with the Phillip Morris and Dr. Pepper corporations. She also worked in advertising sales with Langdon Publishing in Tulsa, Oklahoma for many years. After the birth of her son, Josh, she fulfilled her lifelong dream of being a mother and homemaker.

Cindy was admired for her wry wit and sense of humor. She was intuitive, with a giving nature. She will be remembered as one who lived and walked with traditional Southern grace.
Cindy is survived by her son, John Newton Harkins, of Oxford; and a brother, Charles Doolittle, of Colorado Springs, Colorado; as well as nieces, Anna Crabtree, of Madison, and Hadley Doolittle, of Nashville, Tennessee, and a nephew Tate Doolittle, of Columbus, Ohio.

She was preceded in death by her parents Spivey and Dorothy Doolittle, of Brookhaven; and her brother, Jerry Doolittle, of Madison; and niece Stacey Doolittle, of Madison.

Memorials can be sent to The St. Jude Children’s Hospital at www.stjude.org or P.O. Box 1000, Department 142, Memphis, TN, 38148,or Pi Beta Phi Foundation at www.pibetaphifoundation.org, or 1154 Town and Country Commons Drive,Town and Country MO,63017,and a charity of the Kappa Sigma fraternity, the Blair E. Batson Children’s Hospital at the University of Mississippi Medical Center at www.umnc.edu/givetochildrens or UMMC Office of Development, 2500 North State Street, Jackson, MS 39216.