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Bert L. Adams
HOMEDALE - Bert Lester Adams, 81, of Homedale, died Wednesday in a Caldwell hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Adams was born Nov. 13, 1893, in Sarpy County, Neb., and was reared there. He was a ditch rider on the North Platte Irrigation Project in Western Nebraska from 1915 until he enlisted in the Army in September, 1917. He was stationed in Kansas. He married Amy L. Winchell Aug. 23, 1917, in Douglas, Who. After World War 1, he was watermaster and later superintendent of the Goshen Irrigation District at Torrington, Wyo., for 25 years. He homesteaded on the Owyhee Project, west of here, in 1938, and worked on the Owyhee Project at Nyssa and the Black Canyon Project at Emmett. He farmed from 1944 until he retired. He served on the Owyhee County Selective Service Board.
He was a member of Silver City Lodge No. 13, AF&AM, and a lifetime member of American Legion Post No. 32.
Surviving in addition to Mrs. Adams are two daughters, Mrs. Grace Martin of La Grande, Ore., and Mrs. Betty June Orris of Homedale; a brother; two sisters; seven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two grandsons.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Homedale's Flahiff Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Clare Willcuts of the Friends Community Church. Interment will be at Marsing-Homedale Cemetery with rites by the Homedale Masonic Lodge.
The Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, Idaho) December 5, 1974 - Page 30
Bert L. Adams
HOMEDALE - Bert Lester Adams, 81, of Homedale, died Wednesday in a Caldwell hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Adams was born Nov. 13, 1893, in Sarpy County, Neb., and was reared there. He was a ditch rider on the North Platte Irrigation Project in Western Nebraska from 1915 until he enlisted in the Army in September, 1917. He was stationed in Kansas. He married Amy L. Winchell Aug. 23, 1917, in Douglas, Who. After World War 1, he was watermaster and later superintendent of the Goshen Irrigation District at Torrington, Wyo., for 25 years. He homesteaded on the Owyhee Project, west of here, in 1938, and worked on the Owyhee Project at Nyssa and the Black Canyon Project at Emmett. He farmed from 1944 until he retired. He served on the Owyhee County Selective Service Board.
He was a member of Silver City Lodge No. 13, AF&AM, and a lifetime member of American Legion Post No. 32.
Surviving in addition to Mrs. Adams are two daughters, Mrs. Grace Martin of La Grande, Ore., and Mrs. Betty June Orris of Homedale; a brother; two sisters; seven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two grandsons.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Homedale's Flahiff Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Clare Willcuts of the Friends Community Church. Interment will be at Marsing-Homedale Cemetery with rites by the Homedale Masonic Lodge.
The Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, Idaho) December 5, 1974 - Page 30
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Bert L. Adams
HOMEDALE - Bert Lester Adams, 81, of Homedale, died Wednesday in a Caldwell hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Adams was born Nov. 13, 1893, in Sarpy County, Neb., and was reared there. He was a ditch rider on the North Platte Irrigation Project in Western Nebraska from 1915 until he enlisted in the Army in September, 1917. He was stationed in Kansas. He married Amy L. Winchell Aug. 23, 1917, in Douglas, Who. After World War 1, he was watermaster and later superintendent of the Goshen Irrigation District at Torrington, Wyo., for 25 years. He homesteaded on the Owyhee Project, west of here, in 1938, and worked on the Owyhee Project at Nyssa and the Black Canyon Project at Emmett. He farmed from 1944 until he retired. He served on the Owyhee County Selective Service Board.
He was a member of Silver City Lodge No. 13, AF&AM, and a lifetime member of American Legion Post No. 32.
Surviving in addition to Mrs. Adams are two daughters, Mrs. Grace Martin of La Grande, Ore., and Mrs. Betty June Orris of Homedale; a brother; two sisters; seven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two grandsons.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Homedale's Flahiff Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Clare Willcuts of the Friends Community Church. Interment will be at Marsing-Homedale Cemetery with rites by the Homedale Masonic Lodge.
The Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, Idaho) December 5, 1974 - Page 30
Bert L. Adams
HOMEDALE - Bert Lester Adams, 81, of Homedale, died Wednesday in a Caldwell hospital after a long illness.
Mr. Adams was born Nov. 13, 1893, in Sarpy County, Neb., and was reared there. He was a ditch rider on the North Platte Irrigation Project in Western Nebraska from 1915 until he enlisted in the Army in September, 1917. He was stationed in Kansas. He married Amy L. Winchell Aug. 23, 1917, in Douglas, Who. After World War 1, he was watermaster and later superintendent of the Goshen Irrigation District at Torrington, Wyo., for 25 years. He homesteaded on the Owyhee Project, west of here, in 1938, and worked on the Owyhee Project at Nyssa and the Black Canyon Project at Emmett. He farmed from 1944 until he retired. He served on the Owyhee County Selective Service Board.
He was a member of Silver City Lodge No. 13, AF&AM, and a lifetime member of American Legion Post No. 32.
Surviving in addition to Mrs. Adams are two daughters, Mrs. Grace Martin of La Grande, Ore., and Mrs. Betty June Orris of Homedale; a brother; two sisters; seven grandchildren, and eight great-grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two grandsons.
Services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at Homedale's Flahiff Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Clare Willcuts of the Friends Community Church. Interment will be at Marsing-Homedale Cemetery with rites by the Homedale Masonic Lodge.
The Idaho Daily Statesman (Boise, Idaho) December 5, 1974 - Page 30
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