Jack D. Adams
Jack D. Adams, 79, of Proctor, formerly of Bemis, lost his courageous battle against diabetes and kidney disease Monday, July 25, 2005, at Crestview Health Care Center, St. Clairsville, Ohio.
He was born March 29, 1926, in Bemis, the son of Eva L. Smith Adams of Moundsville and the late Kennie A. Adams.
He was a retired safety inspector at the Consol Energy McElroy Coal Mine and a member of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Graysville. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed teaching many people to hunt in his beloved mountains and to fly fish in his brook trout streams. Jack was inducted into the West Virginia Turkey Hunters Hall of Fame in 1997. For many years running he was the West Virginia Grand Champion Plug and Fly Caster at the Mountain State Forest Festival. He will be greatly missed by family and friends.
In addition to his mother, survivors include his wife of 57 years, Helen Ailstock Adams; two sons, Kenneth Richard (Sue) Adams of Parkersburg and John L. Adams of Moundsville; two daughters, Sue White of Moundsville and Debbie Adams of Bemis; seven grandchildren, Letitia (Joey) Walker, Kristen (Tony) Johnson, Michelle (Tony) Carpenter, Jacqie Adams, Levi and Grant White and Thomas Adams; four stepgrandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren, Rain Carpenter, Tori Walker, Adam Walker, Braden Walker, Kendra Walker, Isabella Walker, Carlie Johnson and Miles Johnson.
The family will receive friends Thursday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a celebration of his life at 7 p.m. with the Rev. Eddie Wills and a friend, Jerry Yoho, at Grisell Funeral Home & Crematory, 400 Jefferson Ave. in Moundsville.
Friends will also be received Saturday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Lohr & Barb Funeral Home, 120 First St., Elkins, where funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Jonas Johnson Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in Elkins Memorial Garden, Elkins.
Memorial contributions may be made to Graysville United Methodist Church in care of Alice Dunlap, RR 4, Box 94, Moundsville, W.Va. 26041.
Jack D. Adams, 79, of Proctor, formerly of Bemis, lost his courageous battle against diabetes and kidney disease Monday, July 25, 2005, at Crestview Health Care Center, St. Clairsville, Ohio.
He was born March 29, 1926, in Bemis, the son of Eva L. Smith Adams of Moundsville and the late Kennie A. Adams.
He was a retired safety inspector at the Consol Energy McElroy Coal Mine and a member of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Graysville. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed teaching many people to hunt in his beloved mountains and to fly fish in his brook trout streams. Jack was inducted into the West Virginia Turkey Hunters Hall of Fame in 1997. For many years running he was the West Virginia Grand Champion Plug and Fly Caster at the Mountain State Forest Festival. He will be greatly missed by family and friends.
In addition to his mother, survivors include his wife of 57 years, Helen Ailstock Adams; two sons, Kenneth Richard (Sue) Adams of Parkersburg and John L. Adams of Moundsville; two daughters, Sue White of Moundsville and Debbie Adams of Bemis; seven grandchildren, Letitia (Joey) Walker, Kristen (Tony) Johnson, Michelle (Tony) Carpenter, Jacqie Adams, Levi and Grant White and Thomas Adams; four stepgrandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren, Rain Carpenter, Tori Walker, Adam Walker, Braden Walker, Kendra Walker, Isabella Walker, Carlie Johnson and Miles Johnson.
The family will receive friends Thursday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a celebration of his life at 7 p.m. with the Rev. Eddie Wills and a friend, Jerry Yoho, at Grisell Funeral Home & Crematory, 400 Jefferson Ave. in Moundsville.
Friends will also be received Saturday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Lohr & Barb Funeral Home, 120 First St., Elkins, where funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Jonas Johnson Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in Elkins Memorial Garden, Elkins.
Memorial contributions may be made to Graysville United Methodist Church in care of Alice Dunlap, RR 4, Box 94, Moundsville, W.Va. 26041.
Jack D. Adams
Jack D. Adams, 79, of Proctor, formerly of Bemis, lost his courageous battle against diabetes and kidney disease Monday, July 25, 2005, at Crestview Health Care Center, St. Clairsville, Ohio.
He was born March 29, 1926, in Bemis, the son of Eva L. Smith Adams of Moundsville and the late Kennie A. Adams.
He was a retired safety inspector at the Consol Energy McElroy Coal Mine and a member of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Graysville. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed teaching many people to hunt in his beloved mountains and to fly fish in his brook trout streams. Jack was inducted into the West Virginia Turkey Hunters Hall of Fame in 1997. For many years running he was the West Virginia Grand Champion Plug and Fly Caster at the Mountain State Forest Festival. He will be greatly missed by family and friends.
In addition to his mother, survivors include his wife of 57 years, Helen Ailstock Adams; two sons, Kenneth Richard (Sue) Adams of Parkersburg and John L. Adams of Moundsville; two daughters, Sue White of Moundsville and Debbie Adams of Bemis; seven grandchildren, Letitia (Joey) Walker, Kristen (Tony) Johnson, Michelle (Tony) Carpenter, Jacqie Adams, Levi and Grant White and Thomas Adams; four stepgrandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren, Rain Carpenter, Tori Walker, Adam Walker, Braden Walker, Kendra Walker, Isabella Walker, Carlie Johnson and Miles Johnson.
The family will receive friends Thursday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a celebration of his life at 7 p.m. with the Rev. Eddie Wills and a friend, Jerry Yoho, at Grisell Funeral Home & Crematory, 400 Jefferson Ave. in Moundsville.
Friends will also be received Saturday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Lohr & Barb Funeral Home, 120 First St., Elkins, where funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Jonas Johnson Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in Elkins Memorial Garden, Elkins.
Memorial contributions may be made to Graysville United Methodist Church in care of Alice Dunlap, RR 4, Box 94, Moundsville, W.Va. 26041.
Jack D. Adams, 79, of Proctor, formerly of Bemis, lost his courageous battle against diabetes and kidney disease Monday, July 25, 2005, at Crestview Health Care Center, St. Clairsville, Ohio.
He was born March 29, 1926, in Bemis, the son of Eva L. Smith Adams of Moundsville and the late Kennie A. Adams.
He was a retired safety inspector at the Consol Energy McElroy Coal Mine and a member of the Calvary United Methodist Church in Graysville. He was an avid outdoorsman who enjoyed teaching many people to hunt in his beloved mountains and to fly fish in his brook trout streams. Jack was inducted into the West Virginia Turkey Hunters Hall of Fame in 1997. For many years running he was the West Virginia Grand Champion Plug and Fly Caster at the Mountain State Forest Festival. He will be greatly missed by family and friends.
In addition to his mother, survivors include his wife of 57 years, Helen Ailstock Adams; two sons, Kenneth Richard (Sue) Adams of Parkersburg and John L. Adams of Moundsville; two daughters, Sue White of Moundsville and Debbie Adams of Bemis; seven grandchildren, Letitia (Joey) Walker, Kristen (Tony) Johnson, Michelle (Tony) Carpenter, Jacqie Adams, Levi and Grant White and Thomas Adams; four stepgrandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren, Rain Carpenter, Tori Walker, Adam Walker, Braden Walker, Kendra Walker, Isabella Walker, Carlie Johnson and Miles Johnson.
The family will receive friends Thursday from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m. with a celebration of his life at 7 p.m. with the Rev. Eddie Wills and a friend, Jerry Yoho, at Grisell Funeral Home & Crematory, 400 Jefferson Ave. in Moundsville.
Friends will also be received Saturday from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Lohr & Barb Funeral Home, 120 First St., Elkins, where funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. with the Rev. Jonas Johnson Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in Elkins Memorial Garden, Elkins.
Memorial contributions may be made to Graysville United Methodist Church in care of Alice Dunlap, RR 4, Box 94, Moundsville, W.Va. 26041.
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