Copied with permission from the Shawnee News-Star:
March 9, 2005:
Former Shawnee resident Johnie Lois Adams, 96, died Sunday, March 6, in Fort Smith Ark.
She was born MArch 5, 1909, in Fluvanna, Texas, to Mike Spears and Elsie Turkett.
She attended Fredrich High School and the Oklahoma College for Women. She was a vocational home economics teacher.
On June 9, 1935, she married Otis S. Adams in Oklahoma City. He proceded her in death Jan.17, 1995.
She moved to Shawnee in 1969, she was a Sunday school and BYU teacher. She also lived and taught school for six years in Ethiopia, Africa.
She also was proceded in death by her daughter, Mikela Grider and two grandsons, David Seth Adams and Michael Steel Adams.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, O.S. Adams Jr. and Cathy of Ft Smith, Ark.: son-in-law, Rex Grider of Shawnee; four grandchildren, Lisa Grider White of Muskogee, Rex Lee Grider Jr. of Fort Smith, Ark., and Cassandra Adams of Fort Smith, Ark.; three great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Mikela Adams Grider Memorial Scholalship Fund at Oklahoma Baptist University.
Graveside service will be 11 a.m. today at Resthaven Memorial PArk with Dr. Bob Searl officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Walker Funeral Service of Shawnee.
March 9, 2005:
Former Shawnee resident Johnie Lois Adams, 96, died Sunday, March 6, in Fort Smith Ark.
She was born MArch 5, 1909, in Fluvanna, Texas, to Mike Spears and Elsie Turkett.
She attended Fredrich High School and the Oklahoma College for Women. She was a vocational home economics teacher.
On June 9, 1935, she married Otis S. Adams in Oklahoma City. He proceded her in death Jan.17, 1995.
She moved to Shawnee in 1969, she was a Sunday school and BYU teacher. She also lived and taught school for six years in Ethiopia, Africa.
She also was proceded in death by her daughter, Mikela Grider and two grandsons, David Seth Adams and Michael Steel Adams.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, O.S. Adams Jr. and Cathy of Ft Smith, Ark.: son-in-law, Rex Grider of Shawnee; four grandchildren, Lisa Grider White of Muskogee, Rex Lee Grider Jr. of Fort Smith, Ark., and Cassandra Adams of Fort Smith, Ark.; three great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Mikela Adams Grider Memorial Scholalship Fund at Oklahoma Baptist University.
Graveside service will be 11 a.m. today at Resthaven Memorial PArk with Dr. Bob Searl officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Walker Funeral Service of Shawnee.
Copied with permission from the Shawnee News-Star:
March 9, 2005:
Former Shawnee resident Johnie Lois Adams, 96, died Sunday, March 6, in Fort Smith Ark.
She was born MArch 5, 1909, in Fluvanna, Texas, to Mike Spears and Elsie Turkett.
She attended Fredrich High School and the Oklahoma College for Women. She was a vocational home economics teacher.
On June 9, 1935, she married Otis S. Adams in Oklahoma City. He proceded her in death Jan.17, 1995.
She moved to Shawnee in 1969, she was a Sunday school and BYU teacher. She also lived and taught school for six years in Ethiopia, Africa.
She also was proceded in death by her daughter, Mikela Grider and two grandsons, David Seth Adams and Michael Steel Adams.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, O.S. Adams Jr. and Cathy of Ft Smith, Ark.: son-in-law, Rex Grider of Shawnee; four grandchildren, Lisa Grider White of Muskogee, Rex Lee Grider Jr. of Fort Smith, Ark., and Cassandra Adams of Fort Smith, Ark.; three great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Mikela Adams Grider Memorial Scholalship Fund at Oklahoma Baptist University.
Graveside service will be 11 a.m. today at Resthaven Memorial PArk with Dr. Bob Searl officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Walker Funeral Service of Shawnee.
March 9, 2005:
Former Shawnee resident Johnie Lois Adams, 96, died Sunday, March 6, in Fort Smith Ark.
She was born MArch 5, 1909, in Fluvanna, Texas, to Mike Spears and Elsie Turkett.
She attended Fredrich High School and the Oklahoma College for Women. She was a vocational home economics teacher.
On June 9, 1935, she married Otis S. Adams in Oklahoma City. He proceded her in death Jan.17, 1995.
She moved to Shawnee in 1969, she was a Sunday school and BYU teacher. She also lived and taught school for six years in Ethiopia, Africa.
She also was proceded in death by her daughter, Mikela Grider and two grandsons, David Seth Adams and Michael Steel Adams.
Survivors include son and daughter-in-law, O.S. Adams Jr. and Cathy of Ft Smith, Ark.: son-in-law, Rex Grider of Shawnee; four grandchildren, Lisa Grider White of Muskogee, Rex Lee Grider Jr. of Fort Smith, Ark., and Cassandra Adams of Fort Smith, Ark.; three great-grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Mikela Adams Grider Memorial Scholalship Fund at Oklahoma Baptist University.
Graveside service will be 11 a.m. today at Resthaven Memorial PArk with Dr. Bob Searl officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Walker Funeral Service of Shawnee.
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