East Oregonian
Pendleton, Oregon
May 18, 2004
July 29, 1927-May 25, 2004
PENDLETON - The funeral for Alfred "Al" Adams will be 1 p.m. Friday, May 21, in the chapel at Burns Mortuary of Pendleton with interment to follow at Olney Cemetery.
Mr. Adams, 76, of Pendleton, died Saturday, May 15, 2004, at St. Anthony Hospital.
He was born July 29, 1927, at Milwaukee, Wis., the fifth of 11 brothers and sisters born to John and Elizabeth Leinweber Adams. He moved with his family from Bayard, Neb., to Wapato, Wash., in 1935. He attended school at Wapato and worked with his father on the family farm until his marriage at Wapato on June 25, 1950, to Mary Ann Pauley.
Two years later he was drafted into the Army to serve during the Korean War.
For several decades he was employed as a service manager for International Harvester Company dealerships in Sunnyside, Wash., and Lexington. He moved to Hermiston then to Pendleton after retirement. He had been employed in the petroleum department at Pendleton Grain Growers.
He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He was said to have spent spring and summer months planning weekend fishing trips to local lakes and streams. Mr. Adams loved to landscape his yard and always had a large garden area.
Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Mary Ann Adams, of Pendleton; daughter, Vicki Bahr and her husband, Dan, of Pendleton; grandsons, Christopher Bahr, Nathan Bahr, Matthew Bahr, Ethan Bahr, Tyler Adams and Jacob Adams; granddaughter, Hanna Adams; and sisters, Mary Brown of Sunnyside, Wash., Esther Miller of Kent, Wash., Irene Graff of Wapato, Wash., Eileen Ewing of Gleed, Wash., Shirley Martin of Richland, Wash., and Rachel Close of Quincy, Wash. He was preceded in death by his parents, by brothers, Elmer, Jacob and Donald, by a sister, Anna Hoffman, and a son, Jeffrey Todd Adams.
Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge of arrangements.
Pendleton, Oregon
May 18, 2004
July 29, 1927-May 25, 2004
PENDLETON - The funeral for Alfred "Al" Adams will be 1 p.m. Friday, May 21, in the chapel at Burns Mortuary of Pendleton with interment to follow at Olney Cemetery.
Mr. Adams, 76, of Pendleton, died Saturday, May 15, 2004, at St. Anthony Hospital.
He was born July 29, 1927, at Milwaukee, Wis., the fifth of 11 brothers and sisters born to John and Elizabeth Leinweber Adams. He moved with his family from Bayard, Neb., to Wapato, Wash., in 1935. He attended school at Wapato and worked with his father on the family farm until his marriage at Wapato on June 25, 1950, to Mary Ann Pauley.
Two years later he was drafted into the Army to serve during the Korean War.
For several decades he was employed as a service manager for International Harvester Company dealerships in Sunnyside, Wash., and Lexington. He moved to Hermiston then to Pendleton after retirement. He had been employed in the petroleum department at Pendleton Grain Growers.
He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He was said to have spent spring and summer months planning weekend fishing trips to local lakes and streams. Mr. Adams loved to landscape his yard and always had a large garden area.
Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Mary Ann Adams, of Pendleton; daughter, Vicki Bahr and her husband, Dan, of Pendleton; grandsons, Christopher Bahr, Nathan Bahr, Matthew Bahr, Ethan Bahr, Tyler Adams and Jacob Adams; granddaughter, Hanna Adams; and sisters, Mary Brown of Sunnyside, Wash., Esther Miller of Kent, Wash., Irene Graff of Wapato, Wash., Eileen Ewing of Gleed, Wash., Shirley Martin of Richland, Wash., and Rachel Close of Quincy, Wash. He was preceded in death by his parents, by brothers, Elmer, Jacob and Donald, by a sister, Anna Hoffman, and a son, Jeffrey Todd Adams.
Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge of arrangements.
East Oregonian
Pendleton, Oregon
May 18, 2004
July 29, 1927-May 25, 2004
PENDLETON - The funeral for Alfred "Al" Adams will be 1 p.m. Friday, May 21, in the chapel at Burns Mortuary of Pendleton with interment to follow at Olney Cemetery.
Mr. Adams, 76, of Pendleton, died Saturday, May 15, 2004, at St. Anthony Hospital.
He was born July 29, 1927, at Milwaukee, Wis., the fifth of 11 brothers and sisters born to John and Elizabeth Leinweber Adams. He moved with his family from Bayard, Neb., to Wapato, Wash., in 1935. He attended school at Wapato and worked with his father on the family farm until his marriage at Wapato on June 25, 1950, to Mary Ann Pauley.
Two years later he was drafted into the Army to serve during the Korean War.
For several decades he was employed as a service manager for International Harvester Company dealerships in Sunnyside, Wash., and Lexington. He moved to Hermiston then to Pendleton after retirement. He had been employed in the petroleum department at Pendleton Grain Growers.
He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He was said to have spent spring and summer months planning weekend fishing trips to local lakes and streams. Mr. Adams loved to landscape his yard and always had a large garden area.
Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Mary Ann Adams, of Pendleton; daughter, Vicki Bahr and her husband, Dan, of Pendleton; grandsons, Christopher Bahr, Nathan Bahr, Matthew Bahr, Ethan Bahr, Tyler Adams and Jacob Adams; granddaughter, Hanna Adams; and sisters, Mary Brown of Sunnyside, Wash., Esther Miller of Kent, Wash., Irene Graff of Wapato, Wash., Eileen Ewing of Gleed, Wash., Shirley Martin of Richland, Wash., and Rachel Close of Quincy, Wash. He was preceded in death by his parents, by brothers, Elmer, Jacob and Donald, by a sister, Anna Hoffman, and a son, Jeffrey Todd Adams.
Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge of arrangements.
Pendleton, Oregon
May 18, 2004
July 29, 1927-May 25, 2004
PENDLETON - The funeral for Alfred "Al" Adams will be 1 p.m. Friday, May 21, in the chapel at Burns Mortuary of Pendleton with interment to follow at Olney Cemetery.
Mr. Adams, 76, of Pendleton, died Saturday, May 15, 2004, at St. Anthony Hospital.
He was born July 29, 1927, at Milwaukee, Wis., the fifth of 11 brothers and sisters born to John and Elizabeth Leinweber Adams. He moved with his family from Bayard, Neb., to Wapato, Wash., in 1935. He attended school at Wapato and worked with his father on the family farm until his marriage at Wapato on June 25, 1950, to Mary Ann Pauley.
Two years later he was drafted into the Army to serve during the Korean War.
For several decades he was employed as a service manager for International Harvester Company dealerships in Sunnyside, Wash., and Lexington. He moved to Hermiston then to Pendleton after retirement. He had been employed in the petroleum department at Pendleton Grain Growers.
He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
He was said to have spent spring and summer months planning weekend fishing trips to local lakes and streams. Mr. Adams loved to landscape his yard and always had a large garden area.
Survivors include his wife of 54 years, Mary Ann Adams, of Pendleton; daughter, Vicki Bahr and her husband, Dan, of Pendleton; grandsons, Christopher Bahr, Nathan Bahr, Matthew Bahr, Ethan Bahr, Tyler Adams and Jacob Adams; granddaughter, Hanna Adams; and sisters, Mary Brown of Sunnyside, Wash., Esther Miller of Kent, Wash., Irene Graff of Wapato, Wash., Eileen Ewing of Gleed, Wash., Shirley Martin of Richland, Wash., and Rachel Close of Quincy, Wash. He was preceded in death by his parents, by brothers, Elmer, Jacob and Donald, by a sister, Anna Hoffman, and a son, Jeffrey Todd Adams.
Burns Mortuary of Pendleton is in charge of arrangements.
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