Arlin was always active in sports and was a linebacker with a semipro football team in the early 1930s. Having an outgoing personality, he participated in wrestling, basketball, baseball and football in school. He was also in the band, chorus and participated in school plays. He was an avid fisherman and hunter until he died. Owning a small farm near Neshkoro, WI, he enjoyed fishing in the surrounding trout streams and hunting deer on his own land. He also did some coaching and belonged to bowling and dart teams. He was a life long Packer fan and on the day he died, had the Packer game on the TV in his hospital room. He watched the entire game and shortly after the Packers won, he went to be with the Lord.
Arlin did quite a bit of writing and was a contributor to the book called Bible Story Time, published by Wartburg Press in the 1950s. He also wrote devotions and articles on various subjects, many of which were published in various books, publications and newspapers. He is mentioned in Who's Who in the Midwest, 1974 and 1975, because of his work in nursing home administration. He was also named in Moore's WHO IS WHO in WISCONSIN in 1960, when he was pastor of St. John's Lutheran Church in Janesville, WI.

He served his God and his country from 1942 to the end of 1945 in New Guinea, Australia and the Philippines. He served parishes in Oconto Falls, Morgan, Spruce, Fairwater, Stratford, Janesville and Boscobel, Wisconsin. He enjoyed working with the elderly and was administrator of Lincoln Lutheran Home in Racine, WI and then at Good Samaritan Center in Waukon, IA [both then were nursing homes but are now expanded to include assisted living and other services] until 1972 when he 'retired.' After that he became assistant pastor of Grace Lutheran Church in Ripon, WI for several years. He continued to fill in for vacationing pastors in the Ripon area until shortly before his death.

OBITUARY from Oshkosh, WI Northwestern:
Arlin H. Adams
Ripon - The Rev. Arlin H. Adams, 82, of 425 Pacific St., Ripon, died Sunday, December 11, 1994, at Ripon Medical Center.
He was born January 1, 1912, in Clintonville, WI, a son of Martin and Helen Messerschmidt Adams, He attended schools in Clintonville, Wartburg College at St. Paul, and Seminary at Dubuque, IA. He was Pastor for 50 years serving parishes in Wisconsin, in the Military Chaplaincy, Lincoln Lutheran Home in Racine and the Good Samaritan Society in Iowa. He was Assistant Pastor of Grace Lutheran Church of Ripon from 1975 to 1985.
He served his country in the Army during World War II. He was a lifetime member of the Wisconsin National Guard Association and a member of the V.F.W. in Janesville.
On June 13, 1954, he was united in marriage with Ruth Granberg. After leaving Ripon for a period of time, they returned to Ripon in January of 1992.
In addition to his wife, Ruth, he is survived by 3 sons, John (Mary) Adams of Barboursville, WV, Arlin of Alexandria, VA. and Arthur of Oceanside, CA; 2 daughters, Patricia (Leo) Michael of Rockville, MD, and Melanie Erdman of Janesville; 5 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Edna McNulty, and 2 sisters.
Funeral services for The Rev. Arlin H. Adams will be held Wednesday at 11 A.M. at Grace Lutheran Church, Ripon. The Rev. Carl L. Stubenvoll will officiate. Interment will take place in Graceland Cemetery in Clintonville. Visitation will be Wednesday from 9:30 A.M. until the time of the service at the church. A memorial has been established. Butzin-Marchant Funeral Home, Ripon, is in charge.

[NOTE: errors in obituary. (1) he was born in Bear Creek Township, [2] attended St. Paul Luther College, not Wartburg College, [3] attended Wartburg Seminary in Dubuque, [4] had not previously lived in Ripon. had previously lived in Fairwater, a small town near Ripon. He was also preceded in death by his son, Alfred Adams.]