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Submitted: 5/31/22 • Approved: 5/31/22 • Last Updated: 6/3/22 • R517128-G517127-S3
Adam C. “Poppy” Flowers
June 10, 1898-November 1, 1972
Mary R. Ratcliff Flowers
May 22, 1901-December 13, 1998
*Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary Adam C.
HEREFORD - Final rites were to be held at 2 p.m. today in First United Methodist Church for Adam Canadrian Flowers, 74, a longtime Hereford resident.
Officiating was to be the Rev. W.A. Appling, pastor, and burial was to be in West Park Cemetery under direction of Gililland-Watson Funeral Home.
Mr. Flowers, who died early Wednesday morning at his home, came to Hereford in 1920 from Kress. He was a farm owner.
Survivors include his wife, the former Mary Ratliff [sic]; a son, Jack R. of 4310 Cline in Amarillo; a daughter, Mrs. Neldean Coulson of Lubbock; two brothers, George of Odessa and W.H. of Clayton, N.M.; two sisters, Mrs. Mamie Syozlman of Detroit, Mich., and Mrs. Henry McIntyre of Odessa; and five grandchildren.
(Published in The Amarillo Globe-Times (Amarillo, Texas) - 2 Nov 1972, Thu - Page 51)
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U.S. WWII Draft Cards Young Men, 1940-1947
Name: Adam Canarain Flowers
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 43
Relationship to Draftee: Self (Head)
Birth Date: 10 Jun 1898
Birth Place: Reagan, Texas, USA
Residence Place: Happy, Swisher, Texas, USA
Registration Date: 16 Feb 1942
Registration Place: Happy, Swisher, Texas, USA
Employer: Self
Weight: 167
Complexion: Light
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Brown
Height: 5 4
Next of Kin: A C Flowers
Household Members:
Name Relationship
Adam Canarain Flowers Self (Head)
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Adam Flowers
Death Date: 1 Nov 1972
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Adam Canadrian Flowers
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 74
Birth Date: 10 Jun 1898
Birth Place: Texas
Residence: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Death Date: 1 Nov 1972
Death Place: Hereford, Deaf Smith, Texas, USA
Father: William Tarvey Flowers
Mother: Mary Lou Canadrian
Certificate Number: 81664
*Obituary Mary R.
HEREFORD - Mary Rachel Flowers, 97, died Sunday, Dec. 13, 1998.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Rose Chapel with the Rev. Rick Burkhalter, pastor of St. Mathew's United Methodist Church of Lubbock, officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery by Gililland-Watson
Funeral Home.
Mr. [sic] Flowers was born in Tazewell, Va., moved to Hereford in 1906 and graduated from Hereford High School in 1922. She was a farmer, homemaker and member of First United Methodist Church. In 1980, she moved to Lubbock.
She married Adam Flowers in 1928 at Hereford. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1972 and by a son, Jack Flowers, in 1992.
Survivors include a daughter, Nell Dean Coulson of Lubbock; five grandchildren; and 10 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to the American Cancer Society.
(Published in Amarillo Online Newspapers 15 Dec 1998)
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Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Mary Flowers
Death Date: 13 Dec 1998
Death County: Harris
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Mary R Flowers
[Mary R Ratclitt]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 22 May 1901
Birth Place: Jazell, Virginia
Death Date: 13 Dec 1998
Father: Auther G Ratclitt
Mother: Maira Laird
Notes: 03 Aug 1972: Name listed as MARY R FLOWERS
Contributed on 5/31/22 by neldapat
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