Superior Express (Superior, NE), Thursday, May 11, 1972; pg. 7
Funeral services were held at the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Superior Monday for Mrs. Belle Adams, a former Beulah pastor's wife. Mrs. Adams died at Laveen, Ariz., on May 4.
Mary Belle Edgar Adams, daughter of John and Matilda Edgar, was born in Sylvania, Mo., on Oct.21, 1891.
She moved with her parents to Sterling, Kan., when she was four years of age. She was educated in the public schools of Sterling and graduated from Cooper College in 1941. She taught school for three years and was married on July 17, 1917, to Richard Cameron Adams. They went as missionaries to South China that fall and were there for seven years.
After a year's furlough in 1924, they did not return because of unsettled conditions in South China. They spent one year in Stafford, Kan., and then served at the Indian Mission near Apache, Okla., until 1942.
They moved to Nuckolls County where her husband was pastor of the Beulah Congregation until his death in 1948.
In the fall of that year she moved to eastern Kentucky where she served as a Bible teacher in Elliott and Morgan Counties until her retirement in 1965. She has since resided with her daughter, Mrs. Elmer Graham, in Arizona and was an active member of the Phoenix congregation until the time of her death.
She is survived by the following children: Roy of Darlington, PA., Mrs. Elmer Graham (Lois) of Laveen, Ariz., Mrs. John McMillan (Marion) of Walden, N.Y., Bruce O. Warren, Mich., and Mrs. Gene Spear (Ruth) of Kobe, Japan; 18 grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.
Officiating at the service was Pastor R. W. Caskey.
Interment was in the Beulah Cemetery.
Funeral services were held at the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Superior Monday for Mrs. Belle Adams, a former Beulah pastor's wife. Mrs. Adams died at Laveen, Ariz., on May 4.
Mary Belle Edgar Adams, daughter of John and Matilda Edgar, was born in Sylvania, Mo., on Oct.21, 1891.
She moved with her parents to Sterling, Kan., when she was four years of age. She was educated in the public schools of Sterling and graduated from Cooper College in 1941. She taught school for three years and was married on July 17, 1917, to Richard Cameron Adams. They went as missionaries to South China that fall and were there for seven years.
After a year's furlough in 1924, they did not return because of unsettled conditions in South China. They spent one year in Stafford, Kan., and then served at the Indian Mission near Apache, Okla., until 1942.
They moved to Nuckolls County where her husband was pastor of the Beulah Congregation until his death in 1948.
In the fall of that year she moved to eastern Kentucky where she served as a Bible teacher in Elliott and Morgan Counties until her retirement in 1965. She has since resided with her daughter, Mrs. Elmer Graham, in Arizona and was an active member of the Phoenix congregation until the time of her death.
She is survived by the following children: Roy of Darlington, PA., Mrs. Elmer Graham (Lois) of Laveen, Ariz., Mrs. John McMillan (Marion) of Walden, N.Y., Bruce O. Warren, Mich., and Mrs. Gene Spear (Ruth) of Kobe, Japan; 18 grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.
Officiating at the service was Pastor R. W. Caskey.
Interment was in the Beulah Cemetery.
Superior Express (Superior, NE), Thursday, May 11, 1972; pg. 7
Funeral services were held at the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Superior Monday for Mrs. Belle Adams, a former Beulah pastor's wife. Mrs. Adams died at Laveen, Ariz., on May 4.
Mary Belle Edgar Adams, daughter of John and Matilda Edgar, was born in Sylvania, Mo., on Oct.21, 1891.
She moved with her parents to Sterling, Kan., when she was four years of age. She was educated in the public schools of Sterling and graduated from Cooper College in 1941. She taught school for three years and was married on July 17, 1917, to Richard Cameron Adams. They went as missionaries to South China that fall and were there for seven years.
After a year's furlough in 1924, they did not return because of unsettled conditions in South China. They spent one year in Stafford, Kan., and then served at the Indian Mission near Apache, Okla., until 1942.
They moved to Nuckolls County where her husband was pastor of the Beulah Congregation until his death in 1948.
In the fall of that year she moved to eastern Kentucky where she served as a Bible teacher in Elliott and Morgan Counties until her retirement in 1965. She has since resided with her daughter, Mrs. Elmer Graham, in Arizona and was an active member of the Phoenix congregation until the time of her death.
She is survived by the following children: Roy of Darlington, PA., Mrs. Elmer Graham (Lois) of Laveen, Ariz., Mrs. John McMillan (Marion) of Walden, N.Y., Bruce O. Warren, Mich., and Mrs. Gene Spear (Ruth) of Kobe, Japan; 18 grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.
Officiating at the service was Pastor R. W. Caskey.
Interment was in the Beulah Cemetery.
Funeral services were held at the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Superior Monday for Mrs. Belle Adams, a former Beulah pastor's wife. Mrs. Adams died at Laveen, Ariz., on May 4.
Mary Belle Edgar Adams, daughter of John and Matilda Edgar, was born in Sylvania, Mo., on Oct.21, 1891.
She moved with her parents to Sterling, Kan., when she was four years of age. She was educated in the public schools of Sterling and graduated from Cooper College in 1941. She taught school for three years and was married on July 17, 1917, to Richard Cameron Adams. They went as missionaries to South China that fall and were there for seven years.
After a year's furlough in 1924, they did not return because of unsettled conditions in South China. They spent one year in Stafford, Kan., and then served at the Indian Mission near Apache, Okla., until 1942.
They moved to Nuckolls County where her husband was pastor of the Beulah Congregation until his death in 1948.
In the fall of that year she moved to eastern Kentucky where she served as a Bible teacher in Elliott and Morgan Counties until her retirement in 1965. She has since resided with her daughter, Mrs. Elmer Graham, in Arizona and was an active member of the Phoenix congregation until the time of her death.
She is survived by the following children: Roy of Darlington, PA., Mrs. Elmer Graham (Lois) of Laveen, Ariz., Mrs. John McMillan (Marion) of Walden, N.Y., Bruce O. Warren, Mich., and Mrs. Gene Spear (Ruth) of Kobe, Japan; 18 grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.
Officiating at the service was Pastor R. W. Caskey.
Interment was in the Beulah Cemetery.
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