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Submitted: 10/19/21 • Approved: 10/19/21 • Last Updated: 10/22/21 • R464162-G0-S3
1907-1953
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
SHAMROCK (Special) - Funeral services for Joseph Marshall Adams, 44, of Shamrock, have been set tentatively for 2:30 p.m. Wednesday in the First Methodist Church.
Mr. Adams died at 9:30 a.m. Monday at his Shamrock home.
Officiating at the services will be Rev. Frank Beauchamp. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery under the direction of Clay Funeral Home.
Owner of a Shamrock hardware store, Mr. Adams was chairman of the Shamrock Red Cross chapter, former president of the Rotary Club, former steward of the First Methodist Church, member of the Masonic Lodge, Wheeler, and of the Khiva Shrine, Amarillo.
He had always been active in community afairs [sic].
Survivors include his wife, Ruby; three sons, Robert, David and Michael; his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.W. Adams, Wheeler; three brothers, Clyde, Tulia, Walter, Cuba, N.M., and Harold, Wheeler; and two sisters, Winona Kongs, San Pedro, Calif., and Bonnie Harmon, Kelton.
(Published in Pampa Daily News (Pampa, Texas) - Tue, Feb 10, 1953 - Page 1)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Joseph Marshall Adams
Birth Date: 11 Sep 1908
Birth Place: Wheeler
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas
Father: Walter Wynn Adams
Mother: Leticia McRoary
Age at Death: 44
Death Date: 9 Feb 1953
Death Place: Shamrock, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Contributed on 10/19/21
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