Roger Mills Co. - Obit for Marie Kennemer Adams

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Obit for Marie Kennemer Adams

Marie Kennemer Adams was born October 5, 1914 in the Highway community
east of Carter to Jennie Lou and Timothy Ray Kennemer and died Sunday
January 26, 1996 in the Elk City Skilled Nursing Center at the age of 82
years.

Marie graduated from Highway School in 1932.  She attended Oklahoma
State A & M College and received her B.A. and Masters in Education from
Southwestern State College.  Marie taught three years at the Doxey School
and married Lester Adams on
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23, 1928 in Clinton.  She taught at Crawford and Merritt before moving to
Hext where she taught for 20 years.  In 1962 they moved to Sayre where Marie
taught until her retirement.  Lester and Marie celebrated their 50th Wedding
Anniversary in 1988.

She was a member of the Sayre Church of Christ.

She was preceded in death by her parents, one sister Ethel Throckmorton
and three brothers, Vester, Earl and W.A.

Services will be held at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Sayre Church of Christ
officiated by Kevin Ballard.  Interment will be in the Sayre-Doxey
Cemeterty, Sayre, Beckham County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose
Chapel Funeral Service, Sayre.

Survivors include; her husband, Lester of the home; one daughter and
son-in-law, Donna and Dan Ryan of Abernathy, Texas; one son and
daughter-in-law, Gary and Steva Adams of Sayre; seven grandchildren, Trent,
Marcia, Prim, Christy, Vicky, Rachel and Lori; and a host of relatives and
friends.

Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK