PETERSBURG - Funeral services for Rucker Udell Adams, 82, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church in Petersburg with Lee Crouch officiating. Private burial will follow at Resthaven Memorial Park in Lubbock by Lemons Funeral Home of Plainview. The family will greet friends from 5-6 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Mr. Adams died Friday, March 6, 2009, in Lubbock. He was born Sept. 7, 1926, in Swisher County, one of 10 children born to John and Willie Edna Adams.
He joined the Navy in 1944, spending most of his military career as an electrician's mate aboard the USS Swenning, a destroyer escort ship, in the North Atlantic during WW II. He was honorably discharged in 1946, and after returning home finished high school in Tulia before attending Texas Tech College. In 1949, he married Joyce Kelly. The couple ran a dairy farm and then farmed near Petersburg until his retirement in 1998. He loved to sing and was a song leader at his church where he actively involved for 24 years. He also was a member and song leader for Petersburg Lions Club, and was a member of the Petersburg Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include his wife; four children, Cynthia and husband Jim Fox of Petersburg and Beverly Stirman, Fravin Adams and Ava and husband Ray Stanley, all of Lubbock; three brothers, J.K. of Muleshoe, William O. of San Angelo and Kenneth of Fredricksburg; two sisters, Glenna Rodden of Floydada and his twin sister, Adell Soots of Oxford, Ga.; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. His parents; three brothers, James, Jack and Dwight; and a sister, Wanda Hamilton, are deceased.
The family suggests memorials to the Alzheimer's Association, 4400 N. Big Spring, C-32, Midland, TX 79705-4623; First Methodist Church, P.O. Box 190, Petersburg, TX 79250; or your favorite charity.
Published in the Plainview Daily Herald from 3/8/2009 - 3/9/2009
Mr. Adams died Friday, March 6, 2009, in Lubbock. He was born Sept. 7, 1926, in Swisher County, one of 10 children born to John and Willie Edna Adams.
He joined the Navy in 1944, spending most of his military career as an electrician's mate aboard the USS Swenning, a destroyer escort ship, in the North Atlantic during WW II. He was honorably discharged in 1946, and after returning home finished high school in Tulia before attending Texas Tech College. In 1949, he married Joyce Kelly. The couple ran a dairy farm and then farmed near Petersburg until his retirement in 1998. He loved to sing and was a song leader at his church where he actively involved for 24 years. He also was a member and song leader for Petersburg Lions Club, and was a member of the Petersburg Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include his wife; four children, Cynthia and husband Jim Fox of Petersburg and Beverly Stirman, Fravin Adams and Ava and husband Ray Stanley, all of Lubbock; three brothers, J.K. of Muleshoe, William O. of San Angelo and Kenneth of Fredricksburg; two sisters, Glenna Rodden of Floydada and his twin sister, Adell Soots of Oxford, Ga.; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. His parents; three brothers, James, Jack and Dwight; and a sister, Wanda Hamilton, are deceased.
The family suggests memorials to the Alzheimer's Association, 4400 N. Big Spring, C-32, Midland, TX 79705-4623; First Methodist Church, P.O. Box 190, Petersburg, TX 79250; or your favorite charity.
Published in the Plainview Daily Herald from 3/8/2009 - 3/9/2009
PETERSBURG - Funeral services for Rucker Udell Adams, 82, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church in Petersburg with Lee Crouch officiating. Private burial will follow at Resthaven Memorial Park in Lubbock by Lemons Funeral Home of Plainview. The family will greet friends from 5-6 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.
Mr. Adams died Friday, March 6, 2009, in Lubbock. He was born Sept. 7, 1926, in Swisher County, one of 10 children born to John and Willie Edna Adams.
He joined the Navy in 1944, spending most of his military career as an electrician's mate aboard the USS Swenning, a destroyer escort ship, in the North Atlantic during WW II. He was honorably discharged in 1946, and after returning home finished high school in Tulia before attending Texas Tech College. In 1949, he married Joyce Kelly. The couple ran a dairy farm and then farmed near Petersburg until his retirement in 1998. He loved to sing and was a song leader at his church where he actively involved for 24 years. He also was a member and song leader for Petersburg Lions Club, and was a member of the Petersburg Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include his wife; four children, Cynthia and husband Jim Fox of Petersburg and Beverly Stirman, Fravin Adams and Ava and husband Ray Stanley, all of Lubbock; three brothers, J.K. of Muleshoe, William O. of San Angelo and Kenneth of Fredricksburg; two sisters, Glenna Rodden of Floydada and his twin sister, Adell Soots of Oxford, Ga.; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. His parents; three brothers, James, Jack and Dwight; and a sister, Wanda Hamilton, are deceased.
The family suggests memorials to the Alzheimer's Association, 4400 N. Big Spring, C-32, Midland, TX 79705-4623; First Methodist Church, P.O. Box 190, Petersburg, TX 79250; or your favorite charity.
Published in the Plainview Daily Herald from 3/8/2009 - 3/9/2009
Mr. Adams died Friday, March 6, 2009, in Lubbock. He was born Sept. 7, 1926, in Swisher County, one of 10 children born to John and Willie Edna Adams.
He joined the Navy in 1944, spending most of his military career as an electrician's mate aboard the USS Swenning, a destroyer escort ship, in the North Atlantic during WW II. He was honorably discharged in 1946, and after returning home finished high school in Tulia before attending Texas Tech College. In 1949, he married Joyce Kelly. The couple ran a dairy farm and then farmed near Petersburg until his retirement in 1998. He loved to sing and was a song leader at his church where he actively involved for 24 years. He also was a member and song leader for Petersburg Lions Club, and was a member of the Petersburg Masonic Lodge.
Survivors include his wife; four children, Cynthia and husband Jim Fox of Petersburg and Beverly Stirman, Fravin Adams and Ava and husband Ray Stanley, all of Lubbock; three brothers, J.K. of Muleshoe, William O. of San Angelo and Kenneth of Fredricksburg; two sisters, Glenna Rodden of Floydada and his twin sister, Adell Soots of Oxford, Ga.; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. His parents; three brothers, James, Jack and Dwight; and a sister, Wanda Hamilton, are deceased.
The family suggests memorials to the Alzheimer's Association, 4400 N. Big Spring, C-32, Midland, TX 79705-4623; First Methodist Church, P.O. Box 190, Petersburg, TX 79250; or your favorite charity.
Published in the Plainview Daily Herald from 3/8/2009 - 3/9/2009
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