Jack LeRoy Adams, 88, a former longtime Klamath Falls resident, died Dec 21, 2004, at Life Care Center of Federal Way in Federal Way, Washington.
Mr. Adams was born May 30, 1916, at the family home on Status Creek near Toppenish, Wash. He was the seventh child of LeRoy Monroe and Katie Irene (Chisholm) Adams.
He attended school in Olene to the fourth grade.
He enjoyed working out doors. One of his first jobs was picking hops, but after deductions for room and board, his first month's pay was only 50 cents. That was when he decided to look for better paying work, which led him to logging.
He married Elizabeth "Betty" Jane Roundtree on Feb. 26, 1941, in Elko, Nev. They had met in Prinveville, where she was working as a watiress in a hotel restaurant.
Their first home was a rough cabin with no insulation or indoor plumbing. The following summer they lived in a canvas tent with a wood floor.
After Mr. Adams became superintendent for Raymond Brothers Logging, they lived in cabins built in the woods near the logging operations.
In the mid-1950's they moved their family of four to Klamath Falls and lived there most of their lives.
With his brother William, he founded Adams Brothers Logging in 1957 and moved for a year to Klamath, Calif., to fulfill a contract to provide poles to Northwest telephone and power companies.
The business was dissolved when a longshoreman's striked stranded half a year's production on the docks at Crescent City, Calif., and he moved to clearing right of ways for projects such as Libby Dam constructed near Libby, Mont., helpin to create Lake Coocanusa, an international lake that extends 42 miles into Canadian territory.
He supervised the building of hundreds of miles of roads in Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho.
Mr. Adams tried to retire four or five times only to return to work when he "got so tired of fishing that I could scream." He retired for the last time at age 82 after his wife had a debilitating heart attack.
She preceded him in death on May 28, 2003.
In their later years, they were active members of Shasta Way Christian Church, always ready to lend a helping hand and share their limited income with those less fortunate, including their favorite charity, Hope House Home for Children.
Almost daily they drove to Veterans Park to feed waterfowl. Even after moving into a nursing home, he enjoyed feeding the ducks and geese at the pond behind the home and watching squirrels and birds in the evergreens.
He moved to Federal Way last June.
Survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, Danny and Colleen Adams; daughter and son-in-law Thelma and Ben Pippenger, grandchildren, Marshall Adam, Kattie Cole, Thomas Box, Steven Buck, Christine Buck, Kelly Pippenger, and Ben Pippenger III; six great-grandchildren; sisters, Ivy Rhodes, Dorothy Lugo, and Betty Broberg; brother Rolland Adams; and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Brenda Jean; sisters Velma Irene Adams and Sylvia Fay Whiting; and a brother William M. Adams.
Herald and News, Friday, Jan. 7, 2005
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the following contributed by Teresa:
It mentions his step-father who adopted him in his obituary but here's his birth record. He was also the oldest of the seven surviving children. His mother lost three of her first four children.
Washington, Births, 1883-1935
Name:Patrick
Date of Birth:30 Aug 1916
Gender:Male
County:Yakima
Father's Name:Kerney Patrick
Mother's name:Katie I Chisholm
Mr. Adams was born May 30, 1916, at the family home on Status Creek near Toppenish, Wash. He was the seventh child of LeRoy Monroe and Katie Irene (Chisholm) Adams.
He attended school in Olene to the fourth grade.
He enjoyed working out doors. One of his first jobs was picking hops, but after deductions for room and board, his first month's pay was only 50 cents. That was when he decided to look for better paying work, which led him to logging.
He married Elizabeth "Betty" Jane Roundtree on Feb. 26, 1941, in Elko, Nev. They had met in Prinveville, where she was working as a watiress in a hotel restaurant.
Their first home was a rough cabin with no insulation or indoor plumbing. The following summer they lived in a canvas tent with a wood floor.
After Mr. Adams became superintendent for Raymond Brothers Logging, they lived in cabins built in the woods near the logging operations.
In the mid-1950's they moved their family of four to Klamath Falls and lived there most of their lives.
With his brother William, he founded Adams Brothers Logging in 1957 and moved for a year to Klamath, Calif., to fulfill a contract to provide poles to Northwest telephone and power companies.
The business was dissolved when a longshoreman's striked stranded half a year's production on the docks at Crescent City, Calif., and he moved to clearing right of ways for projects such as Libby Dam constructed near Libby, Mont., helpin to create Lake Coocanusa, an international lake that extends 42 miles into Canadian territory.
He supervised the building of hundreds of miles of roads in Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho.
Mr. Adams tried to retire four or five times only to return to work when he "got so tired of fishing that I could scream." He retired for the last time at age 82 after his wife had a debilitating heart attack.
She preceded him in death on May 28, 2003.
In their later years, they were active members of Shasta Way Christian Church, always ready to lend a helping hand and share their limited income with those less fortunate, including their favorite charity, Hope House Home for Children.
Almost daily they drove to Veterans Park to feed waterfowl. Even after moving into a nursing home, he enjoyed feeding the ducks and geese at the pond behind the home and watching squirrels and birds in the evergreens.
He moved to Federal Way last June.
Survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, Danny and Colleen Adams; daughter and son-in-law Thelma and Ben Pippenger, grandchildren, Marshall Adam, Kattie Cole, Thomas Box, Steven Buck, Christine Buck, Kelly Pippenger, and Ben Pippenger III; six great-grandchildren; sisters, Ivy Rhodes, Dorothy Lugo, and Betty Broberg; brother Rolland Adams; and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Brenda Jean; sisters Velma Irene Adams and Sylvia Fay Whiting; and a brother William M. Adams.
Herald and News, Friday, Jan. 7, 2005
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the following contributed by Teresa:
It mentions his step-father who adopted him in his obituary but here's his birth record. He was also the oldest of the seven surviving children. His mother lost three of her first four children.
Washington, Births, 1883-1935
Name:Patrick
Date of Birth:30 Aug 1916
Gender:Male
County:Yakima
Father's Name:Kerney Patrick
Mother's name:Katie I Chisholm
Jack LeRoy Adams, 88, a former longtime Klamath Falls resident, died Dec 21, 2004, at Life Care Center of Federal Way in Federal Way, Washington.
Mr. Adams was born May 30, 1916, at the family home on Status Creek near Toppenish, Wash. He was the seventh child of LeRoy Monroe and Katie Irene (Chisholm) Adams.
He attended school in Olene to the fourth grade.
He enjoyed working out doors. One of his first jobs was picking hops, but after deductions for room and board, his first month's pay was only 50 cents. That was when he decided to look for better paying work, which led him to logging.
He married Elizabeth "Betty" Jane Roundtree on Feb. 26, 1941, in Elko, Nev. They had met in Prinveville, where she was working as a watiress in a hotel restaurant.
Their first home was a rough cabin with no insulation or indoor plumbing. The following summer they lived in a canvas tent with a wood floor.
After Mr. Adams became superintendent for Raymond Brothers Logging, they lived in cabins built in the woods near the logging operations.
In the mid-1950's they moved their family of four to Klamath Falls and lived there most of their lives.
With his brother William, he founded Adams Brothers Logging in 1957 and moved for a year to Klamath, Calif., to fulfill a contract to provide poles to Northwest telephone and power companies.
The business was dissolved when a longshoreman's striked stranded half a year's production on the docks at Crescent City, Calif., and he moved to clearing right of ways for projects such as Libby Dam constructed near Libby, Mont., helpin to create Lake Coocanusa, an international lake that extends 42 miles into Canadian territory.
He supervised the building of hundreds of miles of roads in Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho.
Mr. Adams tried to retire four or five times only to return to work when he "got so tired of fishing that I could scream." He retired for the last time at age 82 after his wife had a debilitating heart attack.
She preceded him in death on May 28, 2003.
In their later years, they were active members of Shasta Way Christian Church, always ready to lend a helping hand and share their limited income with those less fortunate, including their favorite charity, Hope House Home for Children.
Almost daily they drove to Veterans Park to feed waterfowl. Even after moving into a nursing home, he enjoyed feeding the ducks and geese at the pond behind the home and watching squirrels and birds in the evergreens.
He moved to Federal Way last June.
Survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, Danny and Colleen Adams; daughter and son-in-law Thelma and Ben Pippenger, grandchildren, Marshall Adam, Kattie Cole, Thomas Box, Steven Buck, Christine Buck, Kelly Pippenger, and Ben Pippenger III; six great-grandchildren; sisters, Ivy Rhodes, Dorothy Lugo, and Betty Broberg; brother Rolland Adams; and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Brenda Jean; sisters Velma Irene Adams and Sylvia Fay Whiting; and a brother William M. Adams.
Herald and News, Friday, Jan. 7, 2005
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the following contributed by Teresa:
It mentions his step-father who adopted him in his obituary but here's his birth record. He was also the oldest of the seven surviving children. His mother lost three of her first four children.
Washington, Births, 1883-1935
Name:Patrick
Date of Birth:30 Aug 1916
Gender:Male
County:Yakima
Father's Name:Kerney Patrick
Mother's name:Katie I Chisholm
Mr. Adams was born May 30, 1916, at the family home on Status Creek near Toppenish, Wash. He was the seventh child of LeRoy Monroe and Katie Irene (Chisholm) Adams.
He attended school in Olene to the fourth grade.
He enjoyed working out doors. One of his first jobs was picking hops, but after deductions for room and board, his first month's pay was only 50 cents. That was when he decided to look for better paying work, which led him to logging.
He married Elizabeth "Betty" Jane Roundtree on Feb. 26, 1941, in Elko, Nev. They had met in Prinveville, where she was working as a watiress in a hotel restaurant.
Their first home was a rough cabin with no insulation or indoor plumbing. The following summer they lived in a canvas tent with a wood floor.
After Mr. Adams became superintendent for Raymond Brothers Logging, they lived in cabins built in the woods near the logging operations.
In the mid-1950's they moved their family of four to Klamath Falls and lived there most of their lives.
With his brother William, he founded Adams Brothers Logging in 1957 and moved for a year to Klamath, Calif., to fulfill a contract to provide poles to Northwest telephone and power companies.
The business was dissolved when a longshoreman's striked stranded half a year's production on the docks at Crescent City, Calif., and he moved to clearing right of ways for projects such as Libby Dam constructed near Libby, Mont., helpin to create Lake Coocanusa, an international lake that extends 42 miles into Canadian territory.
He supervised the building of hundreds of miles of roads in Oregon, Washington, Montana and Idaho.
Mr. Adams tried to retire four or five times only to return to work when he "got so tired of fishing that I could scream." He retired for the last time at age 82 after his wife had a debilitating heart attack.
She preceded him in death on May 28, 2003.
In their later years, they were active members of Shasta Way Christian Church, always ready to lend a helping hand and share their limited income with those less fortunate, including their favorite charity, Hope House Home for Children.
Almost daily they drove to Veterans Park to feed waterfowl. Even after moving into a nursing home, he enjoyed feeding the ducks and geese at the pond behind the home and watching squirrels and birds in the evergreens.
He moved to Federal Way last June.
Survivors include his son and daughter-in-law, Danny and Colleen Adams; daughter and son-in-law Thelma and Ben Pippenger, grandchildren, Marshall Adam, Kattie Cole, Thomas Box, Steven Buck, Christine Buck, Kelly Pippenger, and Ben Pippenger III; six great-grandchildren; sisters, Ivy Rhodes, Dorothy Lugo, and Betty Broberg; brother Rolland Adams; and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.
In addition to his wife, he was preceded in death by a daughter, Brenda Jean; sisters Velma Irene Adams and Sylvia Fay Whiting; and a brother William M. Adams.
Herald and News, Friday, Jan. 7, 2005
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the following contributed by Teresa:
It mentions his step-father who adopted him in his obituary but here's his birth record. He was also the oldest of the seven surviving children. His mother lost three of her first four children.
Washington, Births, 1883-1935
Name:Patrick
Date of Birth:30 Aug 1916
Gender:Male
County:Yakima
Father's Name:Kerney Patrick
Mother's name:Katie I Chisholm
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