Funeral services for the Rev. Joseph B. Adams, widely known retired Baptist minister of Sikes, were held Tuesday, May 31, at 2 p.m. at the Hurricane Grove Church, with Rev. Edward Smith of Sikes officiating. Mr. Adams, a native of Sikes, died in a Winnfield hospital May 30, at the age of 83, after a lengthy illness.
Burial was in the Hurricane Grove Cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral Home. Acting as pallbearers were T. J. Townsend, Parnell Williams, Crosby Adams, Jr., J. D. Willis, Lamar Willis, and LaVaughn Williams.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lucy Thornton Adams; three sons, Isiah, Crosby, and Ottis, of Sikes; five daughters, Mrs. E. A. Willis, Mrs. Bertie Waggoner, of Sikes; Mrs. Nancy Bell Townsend of Beaumont, Texas; Mrs. Modie Williams of Winnfield; Mrs. Selma Rose of South Deerfield [, Mass.]
Published in The Winn Parish Enterprise, June 2, 1955
Burial was in the Hurricane Grove Cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral Home. Acting as pallbearers were T. J. Townsend, Parnell Williams, Crosby Adams, Jr., J. D. Willis, Lamar Willis, and LaVaughn Williams.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lucy Thornton Adams; three sons, Isiah, Crosby, and Ottis, of Sikes; five daughters, Mrs. E. A. Willis, Mrs. Bertie Waggoner, of Sikes; Mrs. Nancy Bell Townsend of Beaumont, Texas; Mrs. Modie Williams of Winnfield; Mrs. Selma Rose of South Deerfield [, Mass.]
Published in The Winn Parish Enterprise, June 2, 1955
Funeral services for the Rev. Joseph B. Adams, widely known retired Baptist minister of Sikes, were held Tuesday, May 31, at 2 p.m. at the Hurricane Grove Church, with Rev. Edward Smith of Sikes officiating. Mr. Adams, a native of Sikes, died in a Winnfield hospital May 30, at the age of 83, after a lengthy illness.
Burial was in the Hurricane Grove Cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral Home. Acting as pallbearers were T. J. Townsend, Parnell Williams, Crosby Adams, Jr., J. D. Willis, Lamar Willis, and LaVaughn Williams.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lucy Thornton Adams; three sons, Isiah, Crosby, and Ottis, of Sikes; five daughters, Mrs. E. A. Willis, Mrs. Bertie Waggoner, of Sikes; Mrs. Nancy Bell Townsend of Beaumont, Texas; Mrs. Modie Williams of Winnfield; Mrs. Selma Rose of South Deerfield [, Mass.]
Published in The Winn Parish Enterprise, June 2, 1955
Burial was in the Hurricane Grove Cemetery under direction of Southern Funeral Home. Acting as pallbearers were T. J. Townsend, Parnell Williams, Crosby Adams, Jr., J. D. Willis, Lamar Willis, and LaVaughn Williams.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lucy Thornton Adams; three sons, Isiah, Crosby, and Ottis, of Sikes; five daughters, Mrs. E. A. Willis, Mrs. Bertie Waggoner, of Sikes; Mrs. Nancy Bell Townsend of Beaumont, Texas; Mrs. Modie Williams of Winnfield; Mrs. Selma Rose of South Deerfield [, Mass.]
Published in The Winn Parish Enterprise, June 2, 1955
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