Carmon Adams

Carmon Lucille (Graves) Adams was born September 17, 1915, to Newton and Myrtle (Pryor) Graves in Dunlap, Iowa. Carmon graduated from Dunlap High School in 1933. She then attended a summer teacher's program in Shenandoah, Iowa. After receiving her teacher's certificate she taught country school for nine years. On May 18, 1942, Carmon married Charles Hatcher Adams, Jr. in Omaha. The couple spent the next 34 years farming in the Woodbine area. In 1976 after retiring from farming the couple moved into Woodbine. Charles died suddenly in May of 1977. In the early 1970s Carmon worked at Dupree Variety, Bro Variety and then Countryside Timekeeper. Carmon retired reluctantly as her health declined. She moved to the Woodland Apartments in 1993 and became a resident of Rose Vista Nursing Home in 2010.

Carmon was a member of the Christian Church; holding many offices in the Women's Fellowship. She loved having family gatherings; with her last outing at the Adams/Burch Reunion in Logan in September to celebrate her 95th birthday. Carmon's love for life, God, family and friends was contagious. Carmon loved to garden and her green thumb was amazing especially with her love for African Violets. She was a cancer survivor since 1987 and has been active in cancer awareness groups.

Carmon died on Thursday, November 25, 2010, Thanksgiving Day, at the Rose Vista Nursing Home in Woodbine, Iowa at the age of 95 years, two months and eight days.

Carmon was preceded in death by her husband, Charles; two sisters, Velma Higgins and Ethel Rees; and two brothers, infant Eugene and Glenn Graves. She is survived by her son, Wells (Carolyn) Adams of Ames, IA; daughter, Nancy (Frank) Gage of Gladstone, MO; grandchildren and great grandchildren, Gale (Adams) and Ryan Geherling and Olivia and Jasmine, Wells Eugene (Geno) and Niki Adams and Hadley, Angela (Gage) and Matt Rueter and Emma and Isaac, Adam Gage and partner Rob May; and other relatives and friends.

Funeral Services
2:00 pm, Sunday, November 28, 2010
Christian Church ~ Woodbine, Iowa

Clergy
Pastor Bill Kanne
Elder Francis Harper

Musicians
Bob Smith
Phil Lubbers

Selections
"In The Garden"
"How Great Thou Art"

Pall Bearers
Keith Adams ~ Larry Adams ~ Terry Adams
Donald Clark ~ Donald Kelley ~ Randall Pryor

Final Resting Place
Woodbine Cemetery
Woodbine, Iowa