ROY, UTAH - Golden Virgil Adams, 77, loving husband, father, brother, grandfather and friend, died December 14, 1997, at Adams family barn bunk house, in East Garland, following a six month illness. He was born October 24, 1920, in East Garland, the son of William Albert and Virginia Brann Adams. After his graduation from Bear River High School, he continued working on the family farm in East Garland until he entered the U.S. Army-Air Force in December 1942.
He married Ruth Lenore Thiessens in the Salt Lake LDS Temple, June 24, 1943. He continued to serve in the military until December 1945, when he was honorably discharged after being stationed in Europe during WW II. He and Ruth returned to East Garland to resume farming and raise a family of seven children. In addition to farming Golden worked for Thiokol Chemical Corporation, then later worked and retired from Civil Service at Hill Air Force Base. He and Ruth divorced in 1972.
On October 5, 1973, he married Twilda Clairece Berry in Roy Utah. After his retirement from HAFB, they moved from Roy to Salmon, Idaho. Later they returned to Utah and resided in Plains City. Twilda died Jan. 22, 1989.
The Adams family barn in East Garland was the setting of his marriage to Loween Parke on March 31, 1990. They made their home in Roy. Golden was an elder and a member of the LDS Royal Green Ward. He was well known for his sense of humor, his kindness and outgoing personality, his bargaining abilities and doing things "his way." He had a great love of horses and was a talented horseman and enjoyed dabbling in real estate sales. He will be greatly missed by his loving family, friends and acquaintances.
Surviving are his wife of Roy and his children and their spouses, Golden V. (Diane Jolley) Adams, Jr., Provo; Lloyd R. (Diane DuPee) Adams, Sarasota, FL; Stephen W. (Marsha McMurdie) Adams, East Garland; Janice Adams (Paul) Coover, Upland, CA; Gloria Adams (Peter, deceased) Schneider, Sturgeon Bay, WI; K. LeMoyne (Allison Nicholes), Layton; Doyle B. (Lori Van Noy) Adams, Logan; 25 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are his step-children and their spouses, Scott and Renee Montgomery, West Haven; Vickie Brown, Washington state; Ricky and Susan Montgomery, West Weber; seven step-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren, his mother-in-Law and good friend Viola Parke; his three sisters, Alice (Mrs. Miles) Goss, Sacramento, CA; Maude (Mrs. Garrett C.) Pack and Ruth (Mrs. Russell) Jenkins, Salt Lake City.
He was preceded in death by his parents one sister, Joy (Mrs. Horace) Beedey; five brothers, LaMoyne, Hugh, Milton, William and Lloyd.
The family wishes to thank our stepmother, Loween and the administative, medical and nursing staff of the U of U Medical Center for their love, compassionate care and concern. A special thanks to our brother, LeMoyne (and his family) for all his devotion time, efforts and care during this time of dad's affliction.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, December 17, 1997, 11 a.m. at West Park Building (temporary meeting place of the LDS Royal Greens Ward), 4425 S. 2915 W., Roy, with Bishop Gordon V. Doxey, officiating.
Friends may call Wednesday from 9:30-10:40 a.m. at the church prior to the funeral services. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Rogers and Taylor Funeral Home, Tremonton.
Interment in the Tremonton Riverview Cemetery with military honors.∼This is probably a Memorial Stone rather than a Grave Stone. Information registered with the Utah State Historical Society Feb. 2, 2000 indicates that Golden V. Adams is actually interned in Riverview Cemetery, Tremonton, Box Elder Co., Utah.
Find A Grave Memorial # 183082
He married Ruth Lenore Thiessens in the Salt Lake LDS Temple, June 24, 1943. He continued to serve in the military until December 1945, when he was honorably discharged after being stationed in Europe during WW II. He and Ruth returned to East Garland to resume farming and raise a family of seven children. In addition to farming Golden worked for Thiokol Chemical Corporation, then later worked and retired from Civil Service at Hill Air Force Base. He and Ruth divorced in 1972.
On October 5, 1973, he married Twilda Clairece Berry in Roy Utah. After his retirement from HAFB, they moved from Roy to Salmon, Idaho. Later they returned to Utah and resided in Plains City. Twilda died Jan. 22, 1989.
The Adams family barn in East Garland was the setting of his marriage to Loween Parke on March 31, 1990. They made their home in Roy. Golden was an elder and a member of the LDS Royal Green Ward. He was well known for his sense of humor, his kindness and outgoing personality, his bargaining abilities and doing things "his way." He had a great love of horses and was a talented horseman and enjoyed dabbling in real estate sales. He will be greatly missed by his loving family, friends and acquaintances.
Surviving are his wife of Roy and his children and their spouses, Golden V. (Diane Jolley) Adams, Jr., Provo; Lloyd R. (Diane DuPee) Adams, Sarasota, FL; Stephen W. (Marsha McMurdie) Adams, East Garland; Janice Adams (Paul) Coover, Upland, CA; Gloria Adams (Peter, deceased) Schneider, Sturgeon Bay, WI; K. LeMoyne (Allison Nicholes), Layton; Doyle B. (Lori Van Noy) Adams, Logan; 25 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are his step-children and their spouses, Scott and Renee Montgomery, West Haven; Vickie Brown, Washington state; Ricky and Susan Montgomery, West Weber; seven step-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren, his mother-in-Law and good friend Viola Parke; his three sisters, Alice (Mrs. Miles) Goss, Sacramento, CA; Maude (Mrs. Garrett C.) Pack and Ruth (Mrs. Russell) Jenkins, Salt Lake City.
He was preceded in death by his parents one sister, Joy (Mrs. Horace) Beedey; five brothers, LaMoyne, Hugh, Milton, William and Lloyd.
The family wishes to thank our stepmother, Loween and the administative, medical and nursing staff of the U of U Medical Center for their love, compassionate care and concern. A special thanks to our brother, LeMoyne (and his family) for all his devotion time, efforts and care during this time of dad's affliction.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, December 17, 1997, 11 a.m. at West Park Building (temporary meeting place of the LDS Royal Greens Ward), 4425 S. 2915 W., Roy, with Bishop Gordon V. Doxey, officiating.
Friends may call Wednesday from 9:30-10:40 a.m. at the church prior to the funeral services. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Rogers and Taylor Funeral Home, Tremonton.
Interment in the Tremonton Riverview Cemetery with military honors.∼This is probably a Memorial Stone rather than a Grave Stone. Information registered with the Utah State Historical Society Feb. 2, 2000 indicates that Golden V. Adams is actually interned in Riverview Cemetery, Tremonton, Box Elder Co., Utah.
Find A Grave Memorial # 183082
ROY, UTAH - Golden Virgil Adams, 77, loving husband, father, brother, grandfather and friend, died December 14, 1997, at Adams family barn bunk house, in East Garland, following a six month illness. He was born October 24, 1920, in East Garland, the son of William Albert and Virginia Brann Adams. After his graduation from Bear River High School, he continued working on the family farm in East Garland until he entered the U.S. Army-Air Force in December 1942.
He married Ruth Lenore Thiessens in the Salt Lake LDS Temple, June 24, 1943. He continued to serve in the military until December 1945, when he was honorably discharged after being stationed in Europe during WW II. He and Ruth returned to East Garland to resume farming and raise a family of seven children. In addition to farming Golden worked for Thiokol Chemical Corporation, then later worked and retired from Civil Service at Hill Air Force Base. He and Ruth divorced in 1972.
On October 5, 1973, he married Twilda Clairece Berry in Roy Utah. After his retirement from HAFB, they moved from Roy to Salmon, Idaho. Later they returned to Utah and resided in Plains City. Twilda died Jan. 22, 1989.
The Adams family barn in East Garland was the setting of his marriage to Loween Parke on March 31, 1990. They made their home in Roy. Golden was an elder and a member of the LDS Royal Green Ward. He was well known for his sense of humor, his kindness and outgoing personality, his bargaining abilities and doing things "his way." He had a great love of horses and was a talented horseman and enjoyed dabbling in real estate sales. He will be greatly missed by his loving family, friends and acquaintances.
Surviving are his wife of Roy and his children and their spouses, Golden V. (Diane Jolley) Adams, Jr., Provo; Lloyd R. (Diane DuPee) Adams, Sarasota, FL; Stephen W. (Marsha McMurdie) Adams, East Garland; Janice Adams (Paul) Coover, Upland, CA; Gloria Adams (Peter, deceased) Schneider, Sturgeon Bay, WI; K. LeMoyne (Allison Nicholes), Layton; Doyle B. (Lori Van Noy) Adams, Logan; 25 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are his step-children and their spouses, Scott and Renee Montgomery, West Haven; Vickie Brown, Washington state; Ricky and Susan Montgomery, West Weber; seven step-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren, his mother-in-Law and good friend Viola Parke; his three sisters, Alice (Mrs. Miles) Goss, Sacramento, CA; Maude (Mrs. Garrett C.) Pack and Ruth (Mrs. Russell) Jenkins, Salt Lake City.
He was preceded in death by his parents one sister, Joy (Mrs. Horace) Beedey; five brothers, LaMoyne, Hugh, Milton, William and Lloyd.
The family wishes to thank our stepmother, Loween and the administative, medical and nursing staff of the U of U Medical Center for their love, compassionate care and concern. A special thanks to our brother, LeMoyne (and his family) for all his devotion time, efforts and care during this time of dad's affliction.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, December 17, 1997, 11 a.m. at West Park Building (temporary meeting place of the LDS Royal Greens Ward), 4425 S. 2915 W., Roy, with Bishop Gordon V. Doxey, officiating.
Friends may call Wednesday from 9:30-10:40 a.m. at the church prior to the funeral services. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Rogers and Taylor Funeral Home, Tremonton.
Interment in the Tremonton Riverview Cemetery with military honors.∼This is probably a Memorial Stone rather than a Grave Stone. Information registered with the Utah State Historical Society Feb. 2, 2000 indicates that Golden V. Adams is actually interned in Riverview Cemetery, Tremonton, Box Elder Co., Utah.
Find A Grave Memorial # 183082
He married Ruth Lenore Thiessens in the Salt Lake LDS Temple, June 24, 1943. He continued to serve in the military until December 1945, when he was honorably discharged after being stationed in Europe during WW II. He and Ruth returned to East Garland to resume farming and raise a family of seven children. In addition to farming Golden worked for Thiokol Chemical Corporation, then later worked and retired from Civil Service at Hill Air Force Base. He and Ruth divorced in 1972.
On October 5, 1973, he married Twilda Clairece Berry in Roy Utah. After his retirement from HAFB, they moved from Roy to Salmon, Idaho. Later they returned to Utah and resided in Plains City. Twilda died Jan. 22, 1989.
The Adams family barn in East Garland was the setting of his marriage to Loween Parke on March 31, 1990. They made their home in Roy. Golden was an elder and a member of the LDS Royal Green Ward. He was well known for his sense of humor, his kindness and outgoing personality, his bargaining abilities and doing things "his way." He had a great love of horses and was a talented horseman and enjoyed dabbling in real estate sales. He will be greatly missed by his loving family, friends and acquaintances.
Surviving are his wife of Roy and his children and their spouses, Golden V. (Diane Jolley) Adams, Jr., Provo; Lloyd R. (Diane DuPee) Adams, Sarasota, FL; Stephen W. (Marsha McMurdie) Adams, East Garland; Janice Adams (Paul) Coover, Upland, CA; Gloria Adams (Peter, deceased) Schneider, Sturgeon Bay, WI; K. LeMoyne (Allison Nicholes), Layton; Doyle B. (Lori Van Noy) Adams, Logan; 25 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.
Also surviving are his step-children and their spouses, Scott and Renee Montgomery, West Haven; Vickie Brown, Washington state; Ricky and Susan Montgomery, West Weber; seven step-grandchildren and two step-great-grandchildren, his mother-in-Law and good friend Viola Parke; his three sisters, Alice (Mrs. Miles) Goss, Sacramento, CA; Maude (Mrs. Garrett C.) Pack and Ruth (Mrs. Russell) Jenkins, Salt Lake City.
He was preceded in death by his parents one sister, Joy (Mrs. Horace) Beedey; five brothers, LaMoyne, Hugh, Milton, William and Lloyd.
The family wishes to thank our stepmother, Loween and the administative, medical and nursing staff of the U of U Medical Center for their love, compassionate care and concern. A special thanks to our brother, LeMoyne (and his family) for all his devotion time, efforts and care during this time of dad's affliction.
Funeral services will be held Wednesday, December 17, 1997, 11 a.m. at West Park Building (temporary meeting place of the LDS Royal Greens Ward), 4425 S. 2915 W., Roy, with Bishop Gordon V. Doxey, officiating.
Friends may call Wednesday from 9:30-10:40 a.m. at the church prior to the funeral services. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Rogers and Taylor Funeral Home, Tremonton.
Interment in the Tremonton Riverview Cemetery with military honors.∼This is probably a Memorial Stone rather than a Grave Stone. Information registered with the Utah State Historical Society Feb. 2, 2000 indicates that Golden V. Adams is actually interned in Riverview Cemetery, Tremonton, Box Elder Co., Utah.
Find A Grave Memorial # 183082
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Golden: Father Veteran W.W. II U.S. Army Air Force
Twilda: Stepmother Veteran Korean War U.S. Navy
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