The Courier, Prescott, Arizona
April 26, 1985
Geneva Katherine Adams, a member of a pioneer Arizona family and oldtime schoolteacher, died Wednesday in Prescott. She was 77 years old.
Mrs. Adams was born Sept. 3, 1907, at Globe, Arizona Territory, and was raised in Tempe. She attended Tempe Normal School, now Arizona State University, for two years. Her first teaching assignment was at Cleator when she was 18 years old.
She taught at Cleator for three years and lived with the Fred Cordes family on the FF Ranch. She met her husband, Albert Adams, at a Crown King School get-together. They were married in 1929. He was a miner and they lived in various mining communities, including DeSoto Mine, Bolada, Humboldt and Mayer, where she taught school.
After her first child was born in 1930, she did not teach for a while.
In a 1981 interview she said, "I still run into children I taught - they recognize me, but I don't always recognize them because they've changed."
She commented on teaching: "I always said if I could teach a child to read, I could teach him anything else".
Mrs. Adams' father was born in Arizona. Her mother was born in a wagon, two days before she got to Arizona. Her Mother's family camped at Woolsey's Ranch (between Dewey and Humboldt) to give the mother and new-born child a chance to recover.
Her grandfather built a cabin and freighted ore from the Peck Mine to Prescott for a year. Then the family settled in Tempe.
In 1942, Mrs. Adams returned to Arizona State University and earned her degree.
She retired from teaching in 1957 because of her husband's failing health. They moved from their home in Mayer to Prescott.
Survivors include a daughter, Carolyn Dare of Tempe: four sons, Derwin of Chandler, Wayne, Robert and Larry, all of Bullhead City; sisters, Margaret Montgomery of Lodi, Calif., Esther Beatty of Eureka, Calif., and Charlotte Redden of Carefree; brothers Joe Williams of Tempe, George Williams of St. George, Utah, and Lloyd Williams of Tempe; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at Memory Chapel Mortuary, 131 Grove Ave. The Rev. Cecil Bailey will officiate. Burial will follow in the family plot at Mountain View Cemetery. Friends may call from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Memory Chapel.
April 26, 1985
Geneva Katherine Adams, a member of a pioneer Arizona family and oldtime schoolteacher, died Wednesday in Prescott. She was 77 years old.
Mrs. Adams was born Sept. 3, 1907, at Globe, Arizona Territory, and was raised in Tempe. She attended Tempe Normal School, now Arizona State University, for two years. Her first teaching assignment was at Cleator when she was 18 years old.
She taught at Cleator for three years and lived with the Fred Cordes family on the FF Ranch. She met her husband, Albert Adams, at a Crown King School get-together. They were married in 1929. He was a miner and they lived in various mining communities, including DeSoto Mine, Bolada, Humboldt and Mayer, where she taught school.
After her first child was born in 1930, she did not teach for a while.
In a 1981 interview she said, "I still run into children I taught - they recognize me, but I don't always recognize them because they've changed."
She commented on teaching: "I always said if I could teach a child to read, I could teach him anything else".
Mrs. Adams' father was born in Arizona. Her mother was born in a wagon, two days before she got to Arizona. Her Mother's family camped at Woolsey's Ranch (between Dewey and Humboldt) to give the mother and new-born child a chance to recover.
Her grandfather built a cabin and freighted ore from the Peck Mine to Prescott for a year. Then the family settled in Tempe.
In 1942, Mrs. Adams returned to Arizona State University and earned her degree.
She retired from teaching in 1957 because of her husband's failing health. They moved from their home in Mayer to Prescott.
Survivors include a daughter, Carolyn Dare of Tempe: four sons, Derwin of Chandler, Wayne, Robert and Larry, all of Bullhead City; sisters, Margaret Montgomery of Lodi, Calif., Esther Beatty of Eureka, Calif., and Charlotte Redden of Carefree; brothers Joe Williams of Tempe, George Williams of St. George, Utah, and Lloyd Williams of Tempe; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at Memory Chapel Mortuary, 131 Grove Ave. The Rev. Cecil Bailey will officiate. Burial will follow in the family plot at Mountain View Cemetery. Friends may call from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Memory Chapel.
The Courier, Prescott, Arizona
April 26, 1985
Geneva Katherine Adams, a member of a pioneer Arizona family and oldtime schoolteacher, died Wednesday in Prescott. She was 77 years old.
Mrs. Adams was born Sept. 3, 1907, at Globe, Arizona Territory, and was raised in Tempe. She attended Tempe Normal School, now Arizona State University, for two years. Her first teaching assignment was at Cleator when she was 18 years old.
She taught at Cleator for three years and lived with the Fred Cordes family on the FF Ranch. She met her husband, Albert Adams, at a Crown King School get-together. They were married in 1929. He was a miner and they lived in various mining communities, including DeSoto Mine, Bolada, Humboldt and Mayer, where she taught school.
After her first child was born in 1930, she did not teach for a while.
In a 1981 interview she said, "I still run into children I taught - they recognize me, but I don't always recognize them because they've changed."
She commented on teaching: "I always said if I could teach a child to read, I could teach him anything else".
Mrs. Adams' father was born in Arizona. Her mother was born in a wagon, two days before she got to Arizona. Her Mother's family camped at Woolsey's Ranch (between Dewey and Humboldt) to give the mother and new-born child a chance to recover.
Her grandfather built a cabin and freighted ore from the Peck Mine to Prescott for a year. Then the family settled in Tempe.
In 1942, Mrs. Adams returned to Arizona State University and earned her degree.
She retired from teaching in 1957 because of her husband's failing health. They moved from their home in Mayer to Prescott.
Survivors include a daughter, Carolyn Dare of Tempe: four sons, Derwin of Chandler, Wayne, Robert and Larry, all of Bullhead City; sisters, Margaret Montgomery of Lodi, Calif., Esther Beatty of Eureka, Calif., and Charlotte Redden of Carefree; brothers Joe Williams of Tempe, George Williams of St. George, Utah, and Lloyd Williams of Tempe; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at Memory Chapel Mortuary, 131 Grove Ave. The Rev. Cecil Bailey will officiate. Burial will follow in the family plot at Mountain View Cemetery. Friends may call from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Memory Chapel.
April 26, 1985
Geneva Katherine Adams, a member of a pioneer Arizona family and oldtime schoolteacher, died Wednesday in Prescott. She was 77 years old.
Mrs. Adams was born Sept. 3, 1907, at Globe, Arizona Territory, and was raised in Tempe. She attended Tempe Normal School, now Arizona State University, for two years. Her first teaching assignment was at Cleator when she was 18 years old.
She taught at Cleator for three years and lived with the Fred Cordes family on the FF Ranch. She met her husband, Albert Adams, at a Crown King School get-together. They were married in 1929. He was a miner and they lived in various mining communities, including DeSoto Mine, Bolada, Humboldt and Mayer, where she taught school.
After her first child was born in 1930, she did not teach for a while.
In a 1981 interview she said, "I still run into children I taught - they recognize me, but I don't always recognize them because they've changed."
She commented on teaching: "I always said if I could teach a child to read, I could teach him anything else".
Mrs. Adams' father was born in Arizona. Her mother was born in a wagon, two days before she got to Arizona. Her Mother's family camped at Woolsey's Ranch (between Dewey and Humboldt) to give the mother and new-born child a chance to recover.
Her grandfather built a cabin and freighted ore from the Peck Mine to Prescott for a year. Then the family settled in Tempe.
In 1942, Mrs. Adams returned to Arizona State University and earned her degree.
She retired from teaching in 1957 because of her husband's failing health. They moved from their home in Mayer to Prescott.
Survivors include a daughter, Carolyn Dare of Tempe: four sons, Derwin of Chandler, Wayne, Robert and Larry, all of Bullhead City; sisters, Margaret Montgomery of Lodi, Calif., Esther Beatty of Eureka, Calif., and Charlotte Redden of Carefree; brothers Joe Williams of Tempe, George Williams of St. George, Utah, and Lloyd Williams of Tempe; 14 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m. Monday at Memory Chapel Mortuary, 131 Grove Ave. The Rev. Cecil Bailey will officiate. Burial will follow in the family plot at Mountain View Cemetery. Friends may call from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at Memory Chapel.
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