Obit of Spoonemore, Nina Floy Adams (s155) - Stephens County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 17 Feb 1999

Nina Floy Adams Spoonemore

PAMPA - Nina Floy Adams Spoonemore, 88, died Monday, Feb. 15, 1999.

Services will be at 4 p.m. today in Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors 
Colonial Chapel with the Rev. Todd Dyess, pastor of First United Methodist 
Church, officiating. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Mrs. Spoonemore was born in Velma, Okla., and moved to Pampa in 1935. In 
1980, she retired after 18 years as a social worker for the Texas 
Department of Human Services. She was active in the Top O' Texas Republican 
Women's Club and was executive secretary of the Pampa Army Airfield Reunion 
Association.

In 1973-74, she was named to "Who's Who of Texas" and was named 
"Outstanding American of the South" in 1975.

Mrs. Spoonemore was instrumental in founding the Pampa Army Airfield 
Museum, also known as the Freedom Museum. She was a member of the First 
United Methodist Church, the Pampa Chamber of Commerce for 26 years and the 
Altrusa Club for 12 years.

She married Walter A. Spoonemore in 1927 at Wichita Falls. He died in 1973. 
She also was preceded in death by two sons, Walter A. Spoonemore Jr. and 
Derl Ean Spoonemore.

Survivors include two stepdaughters, Maxine Adkisson of Amarillo and 
Juanita Covington of Corpus Christi; a stepson, Don Spoonemore of Hobbs, N.M.; a sister, Bertha Belew of Fort Worth; four grandchildren; and six 
great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to Pampa Army Airfield Museum.
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