Jeanette Adams, obit. BIG HORN COUNTY

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Jeanette Adams
CROW AGENCY - Jeanette Adams, 85, long time advocate of Crow
education, passed away Monday, June 8, 1998, in the Crow Agency IHS
Hospital.

She was born Jan. 29, 1913, in Crow Agency, a daughter of Don and
Bessie Shane Little Light. She grew up and attended schools in Crow
Agency and the Flandreau Indian School in Flandreau, S.D. Following her
education, she returned to the Crow Agency area.

Jeanette married Douglas Adams Sr. on Jan. 1, 1930, and the couple made
their home in the Black Lodge District near Crow Agency. She was
chairman of the Crow Education Committee for 37 years and a charter
member of the Crow Central Education Committee. She was instrumental
in the development of health care on the Reservation, including
Community Health Representatives, dental clinic development, addition
to the old PHS Hospital and lobbying for the new IHS Hospital.

She was a member of the Baptist Church. She made two trips to the Holy
Land which supported her Christian beliefs. She was a devoted mother
and housekeeper who loved to bead, cook and sew. In her later years,
she was honored for being the oldest survivor within the Little Light
family.

Jeanette was preceded in death by her husband and three sons, Ronald,
Lynn Roy and Douglas Jr.

Survivors include her daughter, Joan Crooked Arms of Crow Agency; one
sister, Bernice Jefferson of Lodge Grass; nine adopted sons, Tony Vogel of
South Dakota, Clem Goes Ahead of Dunmore, Bob Kelly of Billings, Dr.
Emery Johnson of Maryland, Byron Bad Bear of Arizona, Gayle Three
Irons and Gussie Costa of Crow Agency, Scott Carpenter of Texas and
Henry Pretty on Top of Lodge Grass; seven adopted daughters, Karen
Little Light of Billings, Jacqueline Ware of New Mexico, Delma Yarlott of
Benteen, Annie Costa of Crow Agency, Carlene, Gloria and Regina Goes
Ahead of Dunmore; 12 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and eight
great-great-grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held 10 a.m. Friday in the First Crow Baptist
Mission. Interment will follow in the Crow Agency Cemetery. Bullis
Mortuary of Hardin is entrusted with the arrangements.