Alice Elizabeth Sutton Adams was born April 12, 1891 in a sod home in Stafford County, Kansas, and went home to be with her Lord April 7,1984, five days before her 93rd birthday.
Alice was the first of eight children born to John Jackson and Sarah Jane Willard Sutton. As oldest sister she became a second mother to her younger brothers and sisters upon the death of their mother when Alice was 18 years old.
She was married to William M. Adams at Liberal, Kansas, on August 14,1917 and moved with him to his homestead 17 miles northwest of Springfield where they lived for 42 years and raised their four children. During all these years on the farm Alice showed her strength and faith by keeping the family going. She was their inspiration through drought and hard times as well as their influence through prosperity and good times. She was a faithful worker in the Sunday School and Church that met at nearby Frontier and was always ready to lend a hand at the school there.
In 1957 they sold the homestead and bought a home at 1100 Colorado Street in Springfield where Alice lived until November 1983 when she moved into the Long Term Care Center. She lived there until her death.
She was preceded in death by her parents, six of her seven brothers and sisters, her husband of 52 years, her eldest son Jesse Calvin Adams, her grandson Bennie Jess Shepherd, her son-in-law, Clarence Ol Shepherd, and her daughter-in-law, Georgia Adams.
In this time of triumph and victory for Alice, she will be greatly missed by her daughters; Matle Shepherd and Sarah McKinley; her son and son-in-law; Howard Adams and Clarence McKinley; seven grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren, her sister, Jessie Kemper, many nephews and nieces and other distant relatives, and the many friends who meant so much to her throughout the long years of her lifetime.
Alice was the first of eight children born to John Jackson and Sarah Jane Willard Sutton. As oldest sister she became a second mother to her younger brothers and sisters upon the death of their mother when Alice was 18 years old.
She was married to William M. Adams at Liberal, Kansas, on August 14,1917 and moved with him to his homestead 17 miles northwest of Springfield where they lived for 42 years and raised their four children. During all these years on the farm Alice showed her strength and faith by keeping the family going. She was their inspiration through drought and hard times as well as their influence through prosperity and good times. She was a faithful worker in the Sunday School and Church that met at nearby Frontier and was always ready to lend a hand at the school there.
In 1957 they sold the homestead and bought a home at 1100 Colorado Street in Springfield where Alice lived until November 1983 when she moved into the Long Term Care Center. She lived there until her death.
She was preceded in death by her parents, six of her seven brothers and sisters, her husband of 52 years, her eldest son Jesse Calvin Adams, her grandson Bennie Jess Shepherd, her son-in-law, Clarence Ol Shepherd, and her daughter-in-law, Georgia Adams.
In this time of triumph and victory for Alice, she will be greatly missed by her daughters; Matle Shepherd and Sarah McKinley; her son and son-in-law; Howard Adams and Clarence McKinley; seven grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren, her sister, Jessie Kemper, many nephews and nieces and other distant relatives, and the many friends who meant so much to her throughout the long years of her lifetime.
Alice Elizabeth Sutton Adams was born April 12, 1891 in a sod home in Stafford County, Kansas, and went home to be with her Lord April 7,1984, five days before her 93rd birthday.
Alice was the first of eight children born to John Jackson and Sarah Jane Willard Sutton. As oldest sister she became a second mother to her younger brothers and sisters upon the death of their mother when Alice was 18 years old.
She was married to William M. Adams at Liberal, Kansas, on August 14,1917 and moved with him to his homestead 17 miles northwest of Springfield where they lived for 42 years and raised their four children. During all these years on the farm Alice showed her strength and faith by keeping the family going. She was their inspiration through drought and hard times as well as their influence through prosperity and good times. She was a faithful worker in the Sunday School and Church that met at nearby Frontier and was always ready to lend a hand at the school there.
In 1957 they sold the homestead and bought a home at 1100 Colorado Street in Springfield where Alice lived until November 1983 when she moved into the Long Term Care Center. She lived there until her death.
She was preceded in death by her parents, six of her seven brothers and sisters, her husband of 52 years, her eldest son Jesse Calvin Adams, her grandson Bennie Jess Shepherd, her son-in-law, Clarence Ol Shepherd, and her daughter-in-law, Georgia Adams.
In this time of triumph and victory for Alice, she will be greatly missed by her daughters; Matle Shepherd and Sarah McKinley; her son and son-in-law; Howard Adams and Clarence McKinley; seven grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren, her sister, Jessie Kemper, many nephews and nieces and other distant relatives, and the many friends who meant so much to her throughout the long years of her lifetime.
Alice was the first of eight children born to John Jackson and Sarah Jane Willard Sutton. As oldest sister she became a second mother to her younger brothers and sisters upon the death of their mother when Alice was 18 years old.
She was married to William M. Adams at Liberal, Kansas, on August 14,1917 and moved with him to his homestead 17 miles northwest of Springfield where they lived for 42 years and raised their four children. During all these years on the farm Alice showed her strength and faith by keeping the family going. She was their inspiration through drought and hard times as well as their influence through prosperity and good times. She was a faithful worker in the Sunday School and Church that met at nearby Frontier and was always ready to lend a hand at the school there.
In 1957 they sold the homestead and bought a home at 1100 Colorado Street in Springfield where Alice lived until November 1983 when she moved into the Long Term Care Center. She lived there until her death.
She was preceded in death by her parents, six of her seven brothers and sisters, her husband of 52 years, her eldest son Jesse Calvin Adams, her grandson Bennie Jess Shepherd, her son-in-law, Clarence Ol Shepherd, and her daughter-in-law, Georgia Adams.
In this time of triumph and victory for Alice, she will be greatly missed by her daughters; Matle Shepherd and Sarah McKinley; her son and son-in-law; Howard Adams and Clarence McKinley; seven grandchildren; seven great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren, her sister, Jessie Kemper, many nephews and nieces and other distant relatives, and the many friends who meant so much to her throughout the long years of her lifetime.
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