Dora Ann Adams

Published 4:22 pm Wednesday, June 15, 2011

TUPELO, Miss. – Dora Ann Adams born Aug. 24, 1944 died on June 10, 2011 in the early morning hours of Friday June l0, 2011, after a good day, and in her bed at home, the LORD took Annie quietly while she slept.

For the first 37 years of her life, “Annie” was cared for at home by her parents. Over the next thirty years she was cared for by and in the homes of her sister and brother-in –law Vivian and Don Eddings in Pensacola, Fla.; niece Donna Jean and Ed Muchow in Greenwood , Miss.; sister Vera Adams Jones in Mobile, then her niece’s family, Debra and David Smith in Tupelo, Miss.

All of us who knew her well and those who knew “of her” will remember her with a smile and a thought of happy times. She liked to color, play with Barbie dolls, watch TV and listen to music.

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Her parents, Monroe and Dora Adams of Canoe; her brothers and sisters-in-law Cecil and Meta Adams of Mobile and Houston and Pauline Adams of Titusville Fla.; sisters Vera Adams Jones and Amos Jones of Mobile, Vivian Adams Eddings and Don Eddings of Pensacola Fla., and Norma Adams Bradley O’Farrell Till (Charles O’Farrell) and Gerald Till of Pensacola, Fla. preceded her in death.

She is survived and was cared for over all her years by her loving brothers, Alfred and his wife Margie Adams of Flomaton and Ronald and his wife Rosa Adams of Gautier Miss. There are also many nieces and nephews across the country.

It has been a blessing, privilege and honor for “our family “to care for this extraordinary child of God.

Burial Services will be Saturday, June 18, 2011, 11:00 am at Pine Level Primitive Baptist Church in Atmore with the Rev. David K Smith performing the ceremony.