Following private interment, there will be a memorial service for longtime local resident, Otho Urlic "Bill or Red" Adams in the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Adams was born in Joplin, Missouri on November 9, 1900 and died Saturday morning, August 11, 1984, of congestive heart failure at West Side Hospital.
Mr. Adams came to Taft in 1922 and worked for the Western Water Company for a brief time before returning to Howe, Oklahoma to marry his sweetheart, Maggie Mae Harris, a high school teacher from Charleston, Mississippi.
After their marriage the Adamses returned to the West Side where Mr. Adams worked for the Honolulu Oil Company in Taft for 35 years before retiring in 1960 to pursue his hobbies of ranching, hunting, and fishing.
He loved the outdoors and was a strong advocate of environmental protection and conservation of natural resources. He especially enjoyed horseback riding and packing into the Sierras the "high country" in his words. Mr. Adams had been a member of the Kern County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Posse. He was frequently called upon by neighbors and friends to minister to their injured and sick animals.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, three daughters, two sisters, eight grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.
Visitation in the slumber room of Erickson & Brown Mortuary will be available today and tonight.
One of the last of the "old time cowboys," Mr. Adams will be buried with his cowboy boots on under a tree beside his mother and father at the West Side Cemetery.
Mr. Adams was born in Joplin, Missouri on November 9, 1900 and died Saturday morning, August 11, 1984, of congestive heart failure at West Side Hospital.
Mr. Adams came to Taft in 1922 and worked for the Western Water Company for a brief time before returning to Howe, Oklahoma to marry his sweetheart, Maggie Mae Harris, a high school teacher from Charleston, Mississippi.
After their marriage the Adamses returned to the West Side where Mr. Adams worked for the Honolulu Oil Company in Taft for 35 years before retiring in 1960 to pursue his hobbies of ranching, hunting, and fishing.
He loved the outdoors and was a strong advocate of environmental protection and conservation of natural resources. He especially enjoyed horseback riding and packing into the Sierras the "high country" in his words. Mr. Adams had been a member of the Kern County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Posse. He was frequently called upon by neighbors and friends to minister to their injured and sick animals.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, three daughters, two sisters, eight grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.
Visitation in the slumber room of Erickson & Brown Mortuary will be available today and tonight.
One of the last of the "old time cowboys," Mr. Adams will be buried with his cowboy boots on under a tree beside his mother and father at the West Side Cemetery.
Following private interment, there will be a memorial service for longtime local resident, Otho Urlic "Bill or Red" Adams in the First Baptist Church.
Mr. Adams was born in Joplin, Missouri on November 9, 1900 and died Saturday morning, August 11, 1984, of congestive heart failure at West Side Hospital.
Mr. Adams came to Taft in 1922 and worked for the Western Water Company for a brief time before returning to Howe, Oklahoma to marry his sweetheart, Maggie Mae Harris, a high school teacher from Charleston, Mississippi.
After their marriage the Adamses returned to the West Side where Mr. Adams worked for the Honolulu Oil Company in Taft for 35 years before retiring in 1960 to pursue his hobbies of ranching, hunting, and fishing.
He loved the outdoors and was a strong advocate of environmental protection and conservation of natural resources. He especially enjoyed horseback riding and packing into the Sierras the "high country" in his words. Mr. Adams had been a member of the Kern County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Posse. He was frequently called upon by neighbors and friends to minister to their injured and sick animals.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, three daughters, two sisters, eight grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.
Visitation in the slumber room of Erickson & Brown Mortuary will be available today and tonight.
One of the last of the "old time cowboys," Mr. Adams will be buried with his cowboy boots on under a tree beside his mother and father at the West Side Cemetery.
Mr. Adams was born in Joplin, Missouri on November 9, 1900 and died Saturday morning, August 11, 1984, of congestive heart failure at West Side Hospital.
Mr. Adams came to Taft in 1922 and worked for the Western Water Company for a brief time before returning to Howe, Oklahoma to marry his sweetheart, Maggie Mae Harris, a high school teacher from Charleston, Mississippi.
After their marriage the Adamses returned to the West Side where Mr. Adams worked for the Honolulu Oil Company in Taft for 35 years before retiring in 1960 to pursue his hobbies of ranching, hunting, and fishing.
He loved the outdoors and was a strong advocate of environmental protection and conservation of natural resources. He especially enjoyed horseback riding and packing into the Sierras the "high country" in his words. Mr. Adams had been a member of the Kern County Sheriff's Search and Rescue Posse. He was frequently called upon by neighbors and friends to minister to their injured and sick animals.
He is survived by his wife, two sons, three daughters, two sisters, eight grandchildren, and five great grandchildren.
Visitation in the slumber room of Erickson & Brown Mortuary will be available today and tonight.
One of the last of the "old time cowboys," Mr. Adams will be buried with his cowboy boots on under a tree beside his mother and father at the West Side Cemetery.
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