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Visitation:
Wednesday, July 17, 2019, from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00
p.m. at the Quiram-Peasley Funeral Home in Atlanta
Second Visitation: 10
a.m. Thursday at the church
Service:
Thursday, July 18, 2019, at 10:30 a.m. at the
Atlanta United Methodist Church
Funeral home:
Quiram Peasley Funeral Home,
Atlanta
Obituary
Marian Adams passed away peacefully
at her Atlanta home on July 14, 2019, in the care of
her family and Safe Haven Hospice. Visitation
services are scheduled for Wednesday, July 17, 2019,
from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at the Quiram-Peasley
Funeral Home in Atlanta. An additional visitation is
available a half hour prior to the memorial service
at the Church. The Memorial Service will be held at
the Atlanta United Methodist Church on Thursday,
July 18, 2019, at 10:30 am with Pastor Carl Johnston
officiating. In lieu of flowers, memorial
contributions may be given to the Atlanta Rescue
Squad, PO Box 708, Atlanta, IL 6 1723 or the J. H.
Hawes Grain Elevator Museum, PO Box 547, Atlanta, IL
61723.
Marian Maxine Ioder Adams, daughter of Levi David
and Edith Briggs Ioder, was born on March 16, 1922,
at the family farmstead in Buda, IL. Marian, her
parents, and three brothers moved to Bradford, IL.
Marian attended Bradford High School graduating in
1940. She received her Bachelor’s of Science in Home
Economics from MacMurray College in 1944. During the
summers of 1943 and 1944, Marian worked as a “Harvey
Girl” in the El Tovar Hotel restaurant on the Grand
Canyon South Rim, Arizona, and in the La Fonda
Restaurant in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In August 1944,
Marian accepted a home economics teaching position
at the Atlanta High School, in Atlanta, IL, where
she taught for two years. One of her students,
Marjorie Ann Coleman, introduced her cousin Paul
Adams (just home from WWII) to Marian. Marian and
Paul were married on August 11, 1946, in Bradford,
IL. Marian is survived by her son, John Richard
Adams, daughter-in-law, Susan Weil Adams, daughter,
Carolyn Jean Adams, and son-in-law, John Forsyth
Meigs. Her husband, Paul, predeceased her on August
20, 2015. |
Marian was an active volunteer is
many organizations as she raised her family. She was
a Girl Scout Leader, Cub Scout Leader (Pack 123),
member of Eminence Township Home Extension, leader
of the 4H Girls Club, a volunteer for the Eminence
Township Cancer Society fundraisers, and served on
the Abraham Lincoln Hospital Board as a member and
secretary in the 1960s. Enjoying history and
genealogy, Marian held long-time memberships, as
well as held officer positions, in the Abraham
Lincoln Chapter of the National Society of the
Daughters of the American Revolution and the
National Society Colonial Daughters of the
Seventeenth Century.
Continuing her involvement in education, Marian
served as a substitute teacher at the Atlanta Public
schools and the Olympia School District. Marian was
an avid bridge player. She was a long-term member of
the Atlanta Ladies Cemetery board, the A-Team, and
the Flower Buds. Marian was a member of the United
Methodist Church in Atlanta. Marian served as an
election judge in the town of Atlanta from 1974 to
2008.
The Adams family wishes to thank Florence (Buni)
Smith for her loving care and dedication to keeping
Marian at home until her death.
Final arrangements are entrusted with Quiram-Peasley
Funeral Home of Atlanta.
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