Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  DELCIA MERKLEY ADAMS 

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DELCIA MERKLEY ADAMS

OCNS - August 16, 2002 - Services for Delcia Merkley Adams, 92, who passed 
away August 14, 2002 will be held at 2:00 p.m., Monday, August 19, in the 
First Baptist Church, Hominy, Oklahoma, with Pastor James Ehrlich 
officiating.   Burial will follow in the A.J. Powell Memorial Cemetery 
under the direction of Powell Funeral Home.

Delcia was born September 11, 1909 in Marion County, Arkansas to John and 
Laura Bullins Garrison.   In 1929, Delcia married Frank Denvie Adams in 
Cleveland, Oklahoma.   She resided, for eight years in Norman, Oklahoma 
where she was a member of the Bethel Baptist Church and active in Women's 
Missionary Union.

Survivors include her daughter, Joyce Bowling of Channahon, Illinois; a 
son, Richard Adams of Longview, Texas; an adopted son, Steve Adams of 
Blanchard, Oklahoma; foster daughter, Charlotte Adams; brother, Orville 
"Bill" Garrison of Simi Valley, California; fifteen grandchildren; several 
great grandchildren, great great-grandchildren, and great-great-great 
grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

Delcia was preceded in death by her husband, two daughters Shirley Black 
and Joretta Adams; three brothers, George Garrison, Lee Garrison and Jim 
Garrison; one sister, Ursula and great grandson, Tanner King.

Casket Bearers will be Steve Adams, Jesse Adams, Terry King, Charles 
Burris, John Adams and William Bowling.   Music selections are "In the 
Garden" and This World Is Not My Home".   Music will be sung by John 
Crawford, accompanied by Theresa Cowan.