03/09/2004
Obituaries
The Daily Sentinel


Minta C. Adams 
Sunset MP, Nacogdoches

Funeral service for Mrs. Minta C. Adams, 98, of Nacogdoches, 
Texas, will be at 4 p.m., Wednesday, March 10, 2004, at Cason 
Monk-Metcalf Sunset Chapel with Dr. Allen Reed of First 
Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial 
Park. 

Mrs. Adams died March 5, 2004, in Nacogdoches, Texas. 

She was born March 3, 1906, in Rogers, Texas, to James Alva 
Johns and Rosa D. Alexander Johns. 

Mrs. Adams attended elementary school in Texas and graduated 
from high school in 1928, as valedictorian of her class in 
Durant, Oklahoma. She received her B.A. degree from 
Southeastern Teachers College in 1931, majoring in Spanish and 
in English. She and her husband, David W. Adams, moved to East 
Texas in 1932. Two sons kept her employed for several years 
before she went back to school and received her master's 
degree in elementary education from Stephen F. Austin State 
University. She taught in Roswell, New Mexico, before retiring 
in 1971. In college, she was active in Tau Beta Chapter of 
Sigma Tau Delta and had articles published in The Phi Beta 
Sigma National Honorary Organizations at Southeastern. After 
retiring, she did voluntary work at Memorial Hospital. She was 
active in AARP, RSVP and voluntary work at the Nacogdoches 
Treatment Center, and she was a long-time member of a local 
garden club. She also had been active in the Baptist church 
since age 14. Mrs. Adams had long been a member of First 
Baptist Church of Nacogdoches, Texas. 

Mrs. Adams is preceded in death by her husband, David Walter 
Adams, in 1973; parents; sisters; as well as her brothers. 

Survivors include her sons, David Duane Adams and wife, 
Eloise, of Nacogdoches, Texas, and Joe Neil Adams and wife, 
Christy, of Nacogdoches, Texas; grandchildren, Michael Terry 
Adams and wife, Shelley, of Jonesboro, Arkansas, Christopher 
Neil Adams and fiance, Jaclyn McGuire of Nacogdoches, Texas; 
great-granddaughter, Bailey Alyse of Nacogdoches, Texas; 
friends and staff at Oak Manor Nursing Home; and special 
friends, Gordon and Donna Harris of Spring, Texas, and John 
and Kim Kerr of Kerrville, Texas. 

Pallbearers will be Steve Green, Milton Moorer, Keith New, Joe 
Evans, Paul Jocis, and David Zimmer. 

Visitation will be from 5 until 7 p.m. today. 

Memorial donations in her honor may be made to the Senior 
Sunday School Class of First Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, 
Texas. 

Arrangements are under the direction of Cason Monk-Metcalf 
Funeral Directors, Nacogdoches, Texas.