Nov. 16, 1922 - March 17, 2009
Stanley Leroy "Stan" Adams, 86, Sarasota, formerly of Pine Grove, Pa., died March 17, 2009.
Services will be at 9 a.m. today at Palms-Robarts Memorial Park.
He lived his entire married life in Sarasota. While in the Air Corps stationed in Venice, he met a local girl at the USO Dance, named Jinx Howell. They married before he was shipped overseas; that was 67 years ago.
Stan served his country for four years, serving during World War II, which earned him three theater ribbons: Asiatic-Pacific, America, and Afron-European, as well as the Pre-Pearl Harbor and Good Conduct medals. He saw action in the Asiatic-Pacific and Afron-European and wore a Bronze Star in each. He also received the DFC, The Air Medal, and the Purple Heart, the latter for wounds suffered in action over New Guinea, which brought eight ribbons Stan earned while in the service overseas.
On his return, Stan and his bride received 40 acres from the veterans homestead property act, and they built their home and raised their son, Sandy, and daughter, Terri. They had loved their home on what today is named Honore Avenue.
When Stan retired from his stucco-crete business, you could find him sitting out among the beautiful moss-draped trees. Granny Jinx had a wonderful treehouse built for their four grandsons and they thought this would be where they would spend the rest of their lives. But the plans for widening Honore Avenue ended those dreams.
The new section of Honore Avenue would go through their home that is today gone! Granny Jinx and Stan moved to a mobile home on Saralake Blvd. Stan's health took a nose-dive and he spent almost two years in the Beneva Lakes Nursing Home before he died.
Survivors included his wife of 67 years, Granny Jinx; son Sandy (Sheila) Adams; daughter Terri (Jack) Chrystal; four grandsons, Mike (Melissa), Russell (Stephaine), Jade (Heather) and Brian Cohen; seven great-grandchildren, Jeffrey, Tyler, Remington, Wyatt, Blake, Samantha, and Whitney; two sisters, Janet Henderson and Esther Adams, both of Pine Grove, Pa.
Plus many, many more nieces and nephews and friends!!
We miss you, PA-PA!!
Published by Herald Tribune on Mar. 20, 2009.
Stanley Leroy "Stan" Adams, 86, Sarasota, formerly of Pine Grove, Pa., died March 17, 2009.
Services will be at 9 a.m. today at Palms-Robarts Memorial Park.
He lived his entire married life in Sarasota. While in the Air Corps stationed in Venice, he met a local girl at the USO Dance, named Jinx Howell. They married before he was shipped overseas; that was 67 years ago.
Stan served his country for four years, serving during World War II, which earned him three theater ribbons: Asiatic-Pacific, America, and Afron-European, as well as the Pre-Pearl Harbor and Good Conduct medals. He saw action in the Asiatic-Pacific and Afron-European and wore a Bronze Star in each. He also received the DFC, The Air Medal, and the Purple Heart, the latter for wounds suffered in action over New Guinea, which brought eight ribbons Stan earned while in the service overseas.
On his return, Stan and his bride received 40 acres from the veterans homestead property act, and they built their home and raised their son, Sandy, and daughter, Terri. They had loved their home on what today is named Honore Avenue.
When Stan retired from his stucco-crete business, you could find him sitting out among the beautiful moss-draped trees. Granny Jinx had a wonderful treehouse built for their four grandsons and they thought this would be where they would spend the rest of their lives. But the plans for widening Honore Avenue ended those dreams.
The new section of Honore Avenue would go through their home that is today gone! Granny Jinx and Stan moved to a mobile home on Saralake Blvd. Stan's health took a nose-dive and he spent almost two years in the Beneva Lakes Nursing Home before he died.
Survivors included his wife of 67 years, Granny Jinx; son Sandy (Sheila) Adams; daughter Terri (Jack) Chrystal; four grandsons, Mike (Melissa), Russell (Stephaine), Jade (Heather) and Brian Cohen; seven great-grandchildren, Jeffrey, Tyler, Remington, Wyatt, Blake, Samantha, and Whitney; two sisters, Janet Henderson and Esther Adams, both of Pine Grove, Pa.
Plus many, many more nieces and nephews and friends!!
We miss you, PA-PA!!
Published by Herald Tribune on Mar. 20, 2009.
Nov. 16, 1922 - March 17, 2009
Stanley Leroy "Stan" Adams, 86, Sarasota, formerly of Pine Grove, Pa., died March 17, 2009.
Services will be at 9 a.m. today at Palms-Robarts Memorial Park.
He lived his entire married life in Sarasota. While in the Air Corps stationed in Venice, he met a local girl at the USO Dance, named Jinx Howell. They married before he was shipped overseas; that was 67 years ago.
Stan served his country for four years, serving during World War II, which earned him three theater ribbons: Asiatic-Pacific, America, and Afron-European, as well as the Pre-Pearl Harbor and Good Conduct medals. He saw action in the Asiatic-Pacific and Afron-European and wore a Bronze Star in each. He also received the DFC, The Air Medal, and the Purple Heart, the latter for wounds suffered in action over New Guinea, which brought eight ribbons Stan earned while in the service overseas.
On his return, Stan and his bride received 40 acres from the veterans homestead property act, and they built their home and raised their son, Sandy, and daughter, Terri. They had loved their home on what today is named Honore Avenue.
When Stan retired from his stucco-crete business, you could find him sitting out among the beautiful moss-draped trees. Granny Jinx had a wonderful treehouse built for their four grandsons and they thought this would be where they would spend the rest of their lives. But the plans for widening Honore Avenue ended those dreams.
The new section of Honore Avenue would go through their home that is today gone! Granny Jinx and Stan moved to a mobile home on Saralake Blvd. Stan's health took a nose-dive and he spent almost two years in the Beneva Lakes Nursing Home before he died.
Survivors included his wife of 67 years, Granny Jinx; son Sandy (Sheila) Adams; daughter Terri (Jack) Chrystal; four grandsons, Mike (Melissa), Russell (Stephaine), Jade (Heather) and Brian Cohen; seven great-grandchildren, Jeffrey, Tyler, Remington, Wyatt, Blake, Samantha, and Whitney; two sisters, Janet Henderson and Esther Adams, both of Pine Grove, Pa.
Plus many, many more nieces and nephews and friends!!
We miss you, PA-PA!!
Published by Herald Tribune on Mar. 20, 2009.
Stanley Leroy "Stan" Adams, 86, Sarasota, formerly of Pine Grove, Pa., died March 17, 2009.
Services will be at 9 a.m. today at Palms-Robarts Memorial Park.
He lived his entire married life in Sarasota. While in the Air Corps stationed in Venice, he met a local girl at the USO Dance, named Jinx Howell. They married before he was shipped overseas; that was 67 years ago.
Stan served his country for four years, serving during World War II, which earned him three theater ribbons: Asiatic-Pacific, America, and Afron-European, as well as the Pre-Pearl Harbor and Good Conduct medals. He saw action in the Asiatic-Pacific and Afron-European and wore a Bronze Star in each. He also received the DFC, The Air Medal, and the Purple Heart, the latter for wounds suffered in action over New Guinea, which brought eight ribbons Stan earned while in the service overseas.
On his return, Stan and his bride received 40 acres from the veterans homestead property act, and they built their home and raised their son, Sandy, and daughter, Terri. They had loved their home on what today is named Honore Avenue.
When Stan retired from his stucco-crete business, you could find him sitting out among the beautiful moss-draped trees. Granny Jinx had a wonderful treehouse built for their four grandsons and they thought this would be where they would spend the rest of their lives. But the plans for widening Honore Avenue ended those dreams.
The new section of Honore Avenue would go through their home that is today gone! Granny Jinx and Stan moved to a mobile home on Saralake Blvd. Stan's health took a nose-dive and he spent almost two years in the Beneva Lakes Nursing Home before he died.
Survivors included his wife of 67 years, Granny Jinx; son Sandy (Sheila) Adams; daughter Terri (Jack) Chrystal; four grandsons, Mike (Melissa), Russell (Stephaine), Jade (Heather) and Brian Cohen; seven great-grandchildren, Jeffrey, Tyler, Remington, Wyatt, Blake, Samantha, and Whitney; two sisters, Janet Henderson and Esther Adams, both of Pine Grove, Pa.
Plus many, many more nieces and nephews and friends!!
We miss you, PA-PA!!
Published by Herald Tribune on Mar. 20, 2009.
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