ADAMS FUNERAL SET FOR TODAY
Rites For Charlotte News Composing Room Superintendent to Be at 4 P.M.
Services for William Ewart Adams, 49, superintendent of the composing room of The Charlotte News, who died Tuesday evening at his home, 2328 East Fifth street, after an illness of two months, will be held at the home at 4 p.m. today. Dr. James F. Hardie of Fort Worth, Texas, formerly Mr. Adams' pastor at Second Presbyterian church, will officiate. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery.
A native of York county, S. C., Mr. Adams spent his boyhood in Gastonia and passed his printer's apprenticeship in the establishment of C. I. Loftin. He joined the mechanical staff of The Charlotte News about 20 years ago and in the succeeding years advanced to the position of composing room superintendent. A member of the board of deacons of Second Presbyterian church, Mr. Adams was also a member of the Masonic order and of the Typographical union.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Marie McKinley Adams, two children, Miss Jean Barry Adams and William E. Adams, Jr., of this city, his father, J. H. Adams, and a sister, Mrs. Henry Van Sleen, both of Gastonia.
Active pallbearers will be Query Pharr, J. B. Marshall, W. S. Cunningham, F. S. Neal, Jr., W. C. Dowd, Jr., J. E. Dowd, J. C. Crowell, and George P. Jenkins.
Honorary pallbearers will be James T. Porter, J. M. Harry, A. R. Craig, W. B. Hodge, Everett Nesbit, J. B. Kuykendall, and John Little, members of the executive committee of the board of Second Presbyterian church, and Wallace Hanks, H. M. Heath, M. P. Johnson, and A. V. Russell.
The Charlotte Observer
Charlotte, NC
Thursday, August 13, 1936
Rites For Charlotte News Composing Room Superintendent to Be at 4 P.M.
Services for William Ewart Adams, 49, superintendent of the composing room of The Charlotte News, who died Tuesday evening at his home, 2328 East Fifth street, after an illness of two months, will be held at the home at 4 p.m. today. Dr. James F. Hardie of Fort Worth, Texas, formerly Mr. Adams' pastor at Second Presbyterian church, will officiate. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery.
A native of York county, S. C., Mr. Adams spent his boyhood in Gastonia and passed his printer's apprenticeship in the establishment of C. I. Loftin. He joined the mechanical staff of The Charlotte News about 20 years ago and in the succeeding years advanced to the position of composing room superintendent. A member of the board of deacons of Second Presbyterian church, Mr. Adams was also a member of the Masonic order and of the Typographical union.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Marie McKinley Adams, two children, Miss Jean Barry Adams and William E. Adams, Jr., of this city, his father, J. H. Adams, and a sister, Mrs. Henry Van Sleen, both of Gastonia.
Active pallbearers will be Query Pharr, J. B. Marshall, W. S. Cunningham, F. S. Neal, Jr., W. C. Dowd, Jr., J. E. Dowd, J. C. Crowell, and George P. Jenkins.
Honorary pallbearers will be James T. Porter, J. M. Harry, A. R. Craig, W. B. Hodge, Everett Nesbit, J. B. Kuykendall, and John Little, members of the executive committee of the board of Second Presbyterian church, and Wallace Hanks, H. M. Heath, M. P. Johnson, and A. V. Russell.
The Charlotte Observer
Charlotte, NC
Thursday, August 13, 1936
ADAMS FUNERAL SET FOR TODAY
Rites For Charlotte News Composing Room Superintendent to Be at 4 P.M.
Services for William Ewart Adams, 49, superintendent of the composing room of The Charlotte News, who died Tuesday evening at his home, 2328 East Fifth street, after an illness of two months, will be held at the home at 4 p.m. today. Dr. James F. Hardie of Fort Worth, Texas, formerly Mr. Adams' pastor at Second Presbyterian church, will officiate. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery.
A native of York county, S. C., Mr. Adams spent his boyhood in Gastonia and passed his printer's apprenticeship in the establishment of C. I. Loftin. He joined the mechanical staff of The Charlotte News about 20 years ago and in the succeeding years advanced to the position of composing room superintendent. A member of the board of deacons of Second Presbyterian church, Mr. Adams was also a member of the Masonic order and of the Typographical union.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Marie McKinley Adams, two children, Miss Jean Barry Adams and William E. Adams, Jr., of this city, his father, J. H. Adams, and a sister, Mrs. Henry Van Sleen, both of Gastonia.
Active pallbearers will be Query Pharr, J. B. Marshall, W. S. Cunningham, F. S. Neal, Jr., W. C. Dowd, Jr., J. E. Dowd, J. C. Crowell, and George P. Jenkins.
Honorary pallbearers will be James T. Porter, J. M. Harry, A. R. Craig, W. B. Hodge, Everett Nesbit, J. B. Kuykendall, and John Little, members of the executive committee of the board of Second Presbyterian church, and Wallace Hanks, H. M. Heath, M. P. Johnson, and A. V. Russell.
The Charlotte Observer
Charlotte, NC
Thursday, August 13, 1936
Rites For Charlotte News Composing Room Superintendent to Be at 4 P.M.
Services for William Ewart Adams, 49, superintendent of the composing room of The Charlotte News, who died Tuesday evening at his home, 2328 East Fifth street, after an illness of two months, will be held at the home at 4 p.m. today. Dr. James F. Hardie of Fort Worth, Texas, formerly Mr. Adams' pastor at Second Presbyterian church, will officiate. Burial will be in Elmwood cemetery.
A native of York county, S. C., Mr. Adams spent his boyhood in Gastonia and passed his printer's apprenticeship in the establishment of C. I. Loftin. He joined the mechanical staff of The Charlotte News about 20 years ago and in the succeeding years advanced to the position of composing room superintendent. A member of the board of deacons of Second Presbyterian church, Mr. Adams was also a member of the Masonic order and of the Typographical union.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Marie McKinley Adams, two children, Miss Jean Barry Adams and William E. Adams, Jr., of this city, his father, J. H. Adams, and a sister, Mrs. Henry Van Sleen, both of Gastonia.
Active pallbearers will be Query Pharr, J. B. Marshall, W. S. Cunningham, F. S. Neal, Jr., W. C. Dowd, Jr., J. E. Dowd, J. C. Crowell, and George P. Jenkins.
Honorary pallbearers will be James T. Porter, J. M. Harry, A. R. Craig, W. B. Hodge, Everett Nesbit, J. B. Kuykendall, and John Little, members of the executive committee of the board of Second Presbyterian church, and Wallace Hanks, H. M. Heath, M. P. Johnson, and A. V. Russell.
The Charlotte Observer
Charlotte, NC
Thursday, August 13, 1936
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