OBITUARY :
ELTON C. "POP" ADAMS, 85, area artist, antiquarian and expert furniture repairman, was found dead Tuesday morning sitting in a chair in his workshop in the Washington County Court Office building in the rear of the court house in Hagerstown.
A waitress from the Court Waffle Shop first thought he was asleep when she rapped on the window about 9 o'clock to call his attention to the fact she had his morning coffee.
Later, a physician on examination said the well known artisan had been dead about 12 hours and apparently was resting peaceful with his feet propped up when his heart stopped.
Besides repairing furniture most skillfully, he dabbled in oil and water-color painting and loved to restore good antique furniture, especially if it required renewal of
decorations.
He also loved to make bird boxes and odds and ends of wooden lawn ornaments, making them just to keep busy.
While a native of Pennsylvania he resided in Washington County practically all his life, never wandering too far from Hagerstown. He lived with his family around Clear Spring, out the Greencastle Pike and once near Waynesboro.
He worked in various furniture factories and learned the cabinet making trade early in life.
He began working for himself some 40 years ago.
He loved artistic things and especially to paint in oils and water colors. His pencil and charcoal drawings make up several albums and his paintings of simple scenes and subjects are scattered all around his workshop.
His wife, the former Grace Stouffer of Hagerstown, died 36 years ago.
Surviving Mr. Adams area daughter, Mrs. Reginald Ankeney, Clear Spring; a son, H. Carl Adams, Baltimore, and two grandchildren.
He was born near Shady Grove, the son of George and Harriett (Repp) Adams. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and the Hagerstown Moose.
The body was taken to the Suter Funeral Home, where friends may call Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.
The funeral will be held there Friday at 11 a.m. by Dr. L. Boyd Hamm, with interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Source : The Record Herald Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Wednesday, April 20, 1955
Obituary provided by Melvin L. Halterman FAG # 130350351.
ELTON C. "POP" ADAMS, 85, area artist, antiquarian and expert furniture repairman, was found dead Tuesday morning sitting in a chair in his workshop in the Washington County Court Office building in the rear of the court house in Hagerstown.
A waitress from the Court Waffle Shop first thought he was asleep when she rapped on the window about 9 o'clock to call his attention to the fact she had his morning coffee.
Later, a physician on examination said the well known artisan had been dead about 12 hours and apparently was resting peaceful with his feet propped up when his heart stopped.
Besides repairing furniture most skillfully, he dabbled in oil and water-color painting and loved to restore good antique furniture, especially if it required renewal of
decorations.
He also loved to make bird boxes and odds and ends of wooden lawn ornaments, making them just to keep busy.
While a native of Pennsylvania he resided in Washington County practically all his life, never wandering too far from Hagerstown. He lived with his family around Clear Spring, out the Greencastle Pike and once near Waynesboro.
He worked in various furniture factories and learned the cabinet making trade early in life.
He began working for himself some 40 years ago.
He loved artistic things and especially to paint in oils and water colors. His pencil and charcoal drawings make up several albums and his paintings of simple scenes and subjects are scattered all around his workshop.
His wife, the former Grace Stouffer of Hagerstown, died 36 years ago.
Surviving Mr. Adams area daughter, Mrs. Reginald Ankeney, Clear Spring; a son, H. Carl Adams, Baltimore, and two grandchildren.
He was born near Shady Grove, the son of George and Harriett (Repp) Adams. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and the Hagerstown Moose.
The body was taken to the Suter Funeral Home, where friends may call Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.
The funeral will be held there Friday at 11 a.m. by Dr. L. Boyd Hamm, with interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Source : The Record Herald Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Wednesday, April 20, 1955
Obituary provided by Melvin L. Halterman FAG # 130350351.
OBITUARY :
ELTON C. "POP" ADAMS, 85, area artist, antiquarian and expert furniture repairman, was found dead Tuesday morning sitting in a chair in his workshop in the Washington County Court Office building in the rear of the court house in Hagerstown.
A waitress from the Court Waffle Shop first thought he was asleep when she rapped on the window about 9 o'clock to call his attention to the fact she had his morning coffee.
Later, a physician on examination said the well known artisan had been dead about 12 hours and apparently was resting peaceful with his feet propped up when his heart stopped.
Besides repairing furniture most skillfully, he dabbled in oil and water-color painting and loved to restore good antique furniture, especially if it required renewal of
decorations.
He also loved to make bird boxes and odds and ends of wooden lawn ornaments, making them just to keep busy.
While a native of Pennsylvania he resided in Washington County practically all his life, never wandering too far from Hagerstown. He lived with his family around Clear Spring, out the Greencastle Pike and once near Waynesboro.
He worked in various furniture factories and learned the cabinet making trade early in life.
He began working for himself some 40 years ago.
He loved artistic things and especially to paint in oils and water colors. His pencil and charcoal drawings make up several albums and his paintings of simple scenes and subjects are scattered all around his workshop.
His wife, the former Grace Stouffer of Hagerstown, died 36 years ago.
Surviving Mr. Adams area daughter, Mrs. Reginald Ankeney, Clear Spring; a son, H. Carl Adams, Baltimore, and two grandchildren.
He was born near Shady Grove, the son of George and Harriett (Repp) Adams. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and the Hagerstown Moose.
The body was taken to the Suter Funeral Home, where friends may call Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.
The funeral will be held there Friday at 11 a.m. by Dr. L. Boyd Hamm, with interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Source : The Record Herald Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Wednesday, April 20, 1955
Obituary provided by Melvin L. Halterman FAG # 130350351.
ELTON C. "POP" ADAMS, 85, area artist, antiquarian and expert furniture repairman, was found dead Tuesday morning sitting in a chair in his workshop in the Washington County Court Office building in the rear of the court house in Hagerstown.
A waitress from the Court Waffle Shop first thought he was asleep when she rapped on the window about 9 o'clock to call his attention to the fact she had his morning coffee.
Later, a physician on examination said the well known artisan had been dead about 12 hours and apparently was resting peaceful with his feet propped up when his heart stopped.
Besides repairing furniture most skillfully, he dabbled in oil and water-color painting and loved to restore good antique furniture, especially if it required renewal of
decorations.
He also loved to make bird boxes and odds and ends of wooden lawn ornaments, making them just to keep busy.
While a native of Pennsylvania he resided in Washington County practically all his life, never wandering too far from Hagerstown. He lived with his family around Clear Spring, out the Greencastle Pike and once near Waynesboro.
He worked in various furniture factories and learned the cabinet making trade early in life.
He began working for himself some 40 years ago.
He loved artistic things and especially to paint in oils and water colors. His pencil and charcoal drawings make up several albums and his paintings of simple scenes and subjects are scattered all around his workshop.
His wife, the former Grace Stouffer of Hagerstown, died 36 years ago.
Surviving Mr. Adams area daughter, Mrs. Reginald Ankeney, Clear Spring; a son, H. Carl Adams, Baltimore, and two grandchildren.
He was born near Shady Grove, the son of George and Harriett (Repp) Adams. He was a member of St. John's Lutheran Church and the Hagerstown Moose.
The body was taken to the Suter Funeral Home, where friends may call Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.
The funeral will be held there Friday at 11 a.m. by Dr. L. Boyd Hamm, with interment in Rose Hill Cemetery.
Source : The Record Herald Newspaper - Waynesboro, Franklin Co., Pennsylvania - Wednesday, April 20, 1955
Obituary provided by Melvin L. Halterman FAG # 130350351.
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