Rev. Wayne W. Adams' Rites Will Be Held Today
Funeral services for the Rev. Wayne W. Adams, 74, a retired Southern Baptist Missionary to China, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ruhama Baptist Church. Dr. Carl G. Campbell will officiate and burial will be in Elmwood. The Rev. Adams and his widow, Mrs. Floy White Adams, served for 32 years as missionaries in China. They were called home in 1940 when the Japanese occupied much of China. They had lived in Birmingham for the past year at 5234 Georgia-rd. A native of Virginia, the Rev. Adams moved to the State of Washington when a child with his parents. In 1908 the couple went to China where the Rev. Adams preached and Mrs. Adams worked with the women and children as a teacher. During the famine in Korea many years ago, the Southern Baptist Mission Board made the Rev. Adams chief executive for distributing aid the to starving Koreans. Besides his widow, the Rev. Adams is survived by four brothers, J. D. B. Adams, Lansing, Mich.; J. Oscar Adams and D. C. Adams, both of Spokane, Wash., and Thomas J. Adams, Sillah, Wash. Pallbearers are Jimmy Lee Holland, W. W. Palmer, L. Q. Patton, Dr. Maurice Quick, Charles E. Swango and Clifton Corley.
Published in the Birmingham Post-Herald (Birmingham, Alabama) Tuesday December 11, 1951
Funeral services for the Rev. Wayne W. Adams, 74, a retired Southern Baptist Missionary to China, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ruhama Baptist Church. Dr. Carl G. Campbell will officiate and burial will be in Elmwood. The Rev. Adams and his widow, Mrs. Floy White Adams, served for 32 years as missionaries in China. They were called home in 1940 when the Japanese occupied much of China. They had lived in Birmingham for the past year at 5234 Georgia-rd. A native of Virginia, the Rev. Adams moved to the State of Washington when a child with his parents. In 1908 the couple went to China where the Rev. Adams preached and Mrs. Adams worked with the women and children as a teacher. During the famine in Korea many years ago, the Southern Baptist Mission Board made the Rev. Adams chief executive for distributing aid the to starving Koreans. Besides his widow, the Rev. Adams is survived by four brothers, J. D. B. Adams, Lansing, Mich.; J. Oscar Adams and D. C. Adams, both of Spokane, Wash., and Thomas J. Adams, Sillah, Wash. Pallbearers are Jimmy Lee Holland, W. W. Palmer, L. Q. Patton, Dr. Maurice Quick, Charles E. Swango and Clifton Corley.
Published in the Birmingham Post-Herald (Birmingham, Alabama) Tuesday December 11, 1951
Rev. Wayne W. Adams' Rites Will Be Held Today
Funeral services for the Rev. Wayne W. Adams, 74, a retired Southern Baptist Missionary to China, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ruhama Baptist Church. Dr. Carl G. Campbell will officiate and burial will be in Elmwood. The Rev. Adams and his widow, Mrs. Floy White Adams, served for 32 years as missionaries in China. They were called home in 1940 when the Japanese occupied much of China. They had lived in Birmingham for the past year at 5234 Georgia-rd. A native of Virginia, the Rev. Adams moved to the State of Washington when a child with his parents. In 1908 the couple went to China where the Rev. Adams preached and Mrs. Adams worked with the women and children as a teacher. During the famine in Korea many years ago, the Southern Baptist Mission Board made the Rev. Adams chief executive for distributing aid the to starving Koreans. Besides his widow, the Rev. Adams is survived by four brothers, J. D. B. Adams, Lansing, Mich.; J. Oscar Adams and D. C. Adams, both of Spokane, Wash., and Thomas J. Adams, Sillah, Wash. Pallbearers are Jimmy Lee Holland, W. W. Palmer, L. Q. Patton, Dr. Maurice Quick, Charles E. Swango and Clifton Corley.
Published in the Birmingham Post-Herald (Birmingham, Alabama) Tuesday December 11, 1951
Funeral services for the Rev. Wayne W. Adams, 74, a retired Southern Baptist Missionary to China, will be held at 2 p.m. today at Ruhama Baptist Church. Dr. Carl G. Campbell will officiate and burial will be in Elmwood. The Rev. Adams and his widow, Mrs. Floy White Adams, served for 32 years as missionaries in China. They were called home in 1940 when the Japanese occupied much of China. They had lived in Birmingham for the past year at 5234 Georgia-rd. A native of Virginia, the Rev. Adams moved to the State of Washington when a child with his parents. In 1908 the couple went to China where the Rev. Adams preached and Mrs. Adams worked with the women and children as a teacher. During the famine in Korea many years ago, the Southern Baptist Mission Board made the Rev. Adams chief executive for distributing aid the to starving Koreans. Besides his widow, the Rev. Adams is survived by four brothers, J. D. B. Adams, Lansing, Mich.; J. Oscar Adams and D. C. Adams, both of Spokane, Wash., and Thomas J. Adams, Sillah, Wash. Pallbearers are Jimmy Lee Holland, W. W. Palmer, L. Q. Patton, Dr. Maurice Quick, Charles E. Swango and Clifton Corley.
Published in the Birmingham Post-Herald (Birmingham, Alabama) Tuesday December 11, 1951
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