Alice Louise (Verneice) Smith Adams, 78, died at Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles on May 28, 2009.
She was born Feb. 8, 1931, at Rose Lake, Kootenai County, Idaho. She was one of five children born to Charles Vernon and Lola Hazel Wilcox Smith.
She was a 64-year pioneer member of the Washington State Grange, an avid genealogist, a former rock hound and antique bottle hunter. She enjoyed creating ceramics, loved painting and raised many litters of toy poodles.
On Jan. 15, 1949, she married Thomas Clark Adams at Vancouver, Clark County, Wash. While raising their three children, she and her husband worked for wheat ranchers from 1952 to 1967 in Jefferson, Sherman and Wasco counties in Oregon. From 1967 to 1969 they lived in Goldendale, Klickitat County, Wash., where she taught ceramics in the local community center. In 1969, the family moved to Wasco in Sherman County. In 1971, her husband became a millwright with Harvey Aluminum Company in Goldendale, Wash. They moved to The Dalles in the late 1970s and lived there until moving to Dallesport, Wash., in 1980.
She wore many hats in her lifetime. She worked for Montgomery Ward in Portland and The Dalles, also in Vancouver, Wash. She was a homemaker, a 4-H leader and assistant for sewing, knitting, cooking and horsemanship, maintenance mechanic, dispatcher, and a wheat truck and chemical truck driver. She helped start and run the Dal-Gold Credit Union for both aluminum plants, and worked at Equitable Savings and Loan. She was the past president of the Dallesport Water Association and also past president of the Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society.
Family members say she never met a stranger and over the years helped many in need, leaving many friends behind.
She is survived by her sons Mark and Bill, Dallesport; her daughter Nancy, Wasco; her brother Leon Smith and her sister June Smith-McCullough.
She was preceded in death by her husband Tom in 1994, her parents and her brother Lloyd. Her brother Fred died June 19, 2009.
Private cremation was held at Win-Quatt Crematory in The Dalles with arrangements under the care of Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home.
She was born Feb. 8, 1931, at Rose Lake, Kootenai County, Idaho. She was one of five children born to Charles Vernon and Lola Hazel Wilcox Smith.
She was a 64-year pioneer member of the Washington State Grange, an avid genealogist, a former rock hound and antique bottle hunter. She enjoyed creating ceramics, loved painting and raised many litters of toy poodles.
On Jan. 15, 1949, she married Thomas Clark Adams at Vancouver, Clark County, Wash. While raising their three children, she and her husband worked for wheat ranchers from 1952 to 1967 in Jefferson, Sherman and Wasco counties in Oregon. From 1967 to 1969 they lived in Goldendale, Klickitat County, Wash., where she taught ceramics in the local community center. In 1969, the family moved to Wasco in Sherman County. In 1971, her husband became a millwright with Harvey Aluminum Company in Goldendale, Wash. They moved to The Dalles in the late 1970s and lived there until moving to Dallesport, Wash., in 1980.
She wore many hats in her lifetime. She worked for Montgomery Ward in Portland and The Dalles, also in Vancouver, Wash. She was a homemaker, a 4-H leader and assistant for sewing, knitting, cooking and horsemanship, maintenance mechanic, dispatcher, and a wheat truck and chemical truck driver. She helped start and run the Dal-Gold Credit Union for both aluminum plants, and worked at Equitable Savings and Loan. She was the past president of the Dallesport Water Association and also past president of the Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society.
Family members say she never met a stranger and over the years helped many in need, leaving many friends behind.
She is survived by her sons Mark and Bill, Dallesport; her daughter Nancy, Wasco; her brother Leon Smith and her sister June Smith-McCullough.
She was preceded in death by her husband Tom in 1994, her parents and her brother Lloyd. Her brother Fred died June 19, 2009.
Private cremation was held at Win-Quatt Crematory in The Dalles with arrangements under the care of Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home.
Alice Louise (Verneice) Smith Adams, 78, died at Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles on May 28, 2009.
She was born Feb. 8, 1931, at Rose Lake, Kootenai County, Idaho. She was one of five children born to Charles Vernon and Lola Hazel Wilcox Smith.
She was a 64-year pioneer member of the Washington State Grange, an avid genealogist, a former rock hound and antique bottle hunter. She enjoyed creating ceramics, loved painting and raised many litters of toy poodles.
On Jan. 15, 1949, she married Thomas Clark Adams at Vancouver, Clark County, Wash. While raising their three children, she and her husband worked for wheat ranchers from 1952 to 1967 in Jefferson, Sherman and Wasco counties in Oregon. From 1967 to 1969 they lived in Goldendale, Klickitat County, Wash., where she taught ceramics in the local community center. In 1969, the family moved to Wasco in Sherman County. In 1971, her husband became a millwright with Harvey Aluminum Company in Goldendale, Wash. They moved to The Dalles in the late 1970s and lived there until moving to Dallesport, Wash., in 1980.
She wore many hats in her lifetime. She worked for Montgomery Ward in Portland and The Dalles, also in Vancouver, Wash. She was a homemaker, a 4-H leader and assistant for sewing, knitting, cooking and horsemanship, maintenance mechanic, dispatcher, and a wheat truck and chemical truck driver. She helped start and run the Dal-Gold Credit Union for both aluminum plants, and worked at Equitable Savings and Loan. She was the past president of the Dallesport Water Association and also past president of the Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society.
Family members say she never met a stranger and over the years helped many in need, leaving many friends behind.
She is survived by her sons Mark and Bill, Dallesport; her daughter Nancy, Wasco; her brother Leon Smith and her sister June Smith-McCullough.
She was preceded in death by her husband Tom in 1994, her parents and her brother Lloyd. Her brother Fred died June 19, 2009.
Private cremation was held at Win-Quatt Crematory in The Dalles with arrangements under the care of Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home.
She was born Feb. 8, 1931, at Rose Lake, Kootenai County, Idaho. She was one of five children born to Charles Vernon and Lola Hazel Wilcox Smith.
She was a 64-year pioneer member of the Washington State Grange, an avid genealogist, a former rock hound and antique bottle hunter. She enjoyed creating ceramics, loved painting and raised many litters of toy poodles.
On Jan. 15, 1949, she married Thomas Clark Adams at Vancouver, Clark County, Wash. While raising their three children, she and her husband worked for wheat ranchers from 1952 to 1967 in Jefferson, Sherman and Wasco counties in Oregon. From 1967 to 1969 they lived in Goldendale, Klickitat County, Wash., where she taught ceramics in the local community center. In 1969, the family moved to Wasco in Sherman County. In 1971, her husband became a millwright with Harvey Aluminum Company in Goldendale, Wash. They moved to The Dalles in the late 1970s and lived there until moving to Dallesport, Wash., in 1980.
She wore many hats in her lifetime. She worked for Montgomery Ward in Portland and The Dalles, also in Vancouver, Wash. She was a homemaker, a 4-H leader and assistant for sewing, knitting, cooking and horsemanship, maintenance mechanic, dispatcher, and a wheat truck and chemical truck driver. She helped start and run the Dal-Gold Credit Union for both aluminum plants, and worked at Equitable Savings and Loan. She was the past president of the Dallesport Water Association and also past president of the Columbia Gorge Genealogical Society.
Family members say she never met a stranger and over the years helped many in need, leaving many friends behind.
She is survived by her sons Mark and Bill, Dallesport; her daughter Nancy, Wasco; her brother Leon Smith and her sister June Smith-McCullough.
She was preceded in death by her husband Tom in 1994, her parents and her brother Lloyd. Her brother Fred died June 19, 2009.
Private cremation was held at Win-Quatt Crematory in The Dalles with arrangements under the care of Spencer, Libby and Powell Funeral Home.
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