OBITUARY:  Melvin Eugene Adams, 3 Jul 1990 - Coke County, TX

Copied from the Josephine Bird Collection, West Texas Collection, 
Angelo State University - 2 September 2003

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Observer-Enterprise, Coke County, TX, 13 Jul 1990

ADAMS
	
Funeral s6rvices for Melvin Eugene Adams of Eastland were conducted 
Thursday, July 5, in Edwards Funeral Home Chapel of Eastland.  Gary 
Montgomery of the Daugherty Street Church of Christ was the officiant. 
Interment followed in the Breckenridge City Cemetery.
	
Mr. Adams, 75, died Tuesday, July 3, in an Eastland hospital following 
a courageous batle with cancer.
	
He was born November 22, 1914 south of Colorado City, Texas to France 
and Viola Duevoll Adams. He grew up in the Sanco community in Coke 
County where he worked for the Copeland and Chapman Ranches. He
married Mabel Collins on June 5th, 1938 in Sweetwater, Texas. In the 
early forties they moved to Stephens County where he continued to work 
for the Copeland and later Link Ranches. In 1955, they moved into 
Ranger and he began ranching for himself until February of this year.
He was active in local government by serving on the Caddo and Ranger 
School Boards, as well as the Stephens and Eastland County School 
Boards.
	
He was raised during the depression which taught him the value of 
responsibility that he carried with him throughout his life. He 
loved his family and enjoyed ranch work, reading and being independent. 
Mr. Adams made ranch work his life. He was 14 years old when he 
started to work as a cowboy.

He is survived by his wife, Mabel of Eastland; two sons, Don and 
Guinn of Ranger; one daughter, Jane Haynes of Lubbock; two 
brothers, Jesse Adams of LaCanada, CA, and Leon Adams of Santa Ana, 
CA; two sisters, Virginia Foltz, Valancia, CA and Mary Prine of 
Robert Lee, and seven grandchildren.

Preceding him in death were a daughter, Sug Adams, in 1952 and three 
sisters.

Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society.

Permission granted by the Observer-Enterprise for publication in the 
Coke County TXGenWeb Archives.