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Shirley K. Adams © Enid News and Eagle 01-31-2010 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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ENID - The funeral service for Shirley K. Adams, age 80, of Enid, will be held Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, at 2:00 p.m. at Anderson-Burris Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Terry Walborn officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery with arrangements by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.
He was born to Luther Green and Minnie May (Powers) Adams on May 28, 1929, in Columbia, Okla., and died on Jan. 28, 2010, in Pauls Valley, Okla.
Shirley served seven years in the United States Army during the Korean War. He married Barbara Jean Dodd in 1950, and they had one son, Arnold. She died in 1953. He worked as a section gang foreman for the railroad. He married Belva Jean Phillips on May 25, 1959, in Guthrie, where they made their home. They lived in various towns in central Oklahoma, due to him working for the railroad. They moved to Enid in 1977. In 1994, he retired from the railroad after working for Santa Fe, Rock Island, Union Pacific and Burlington Northern. Shirley was a member at Abundant Life Temple. As a child, Shirley and his brothers and sisters played musical instruments and enjoyed the family get togethers. Shirley and his brother, Arnold, are up in heaven picking and grinning with the angels.
He is survived by his children, Arnold Adams and wife Paula of Alex, Dennis Adams and wife Vivian of Cushing, Sherryl Burdick and husband Don of Yukon, Anna Unruh and husband Clifford of Groton, Conn., and Lori Unruh and husband Rick of Enid; 13 grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; a brother Luther Lee Adams of Kingfisher; four sisters, Margie Heird of Guthrie, Rosie John of Edmond, Willena Miller of Oklahoma City and Lucy Seaton of Cashion,
Shirley is preceded in death by his two wives, Barbara and Belva, one brother and one grandson.
Memorials may be made to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation Cancer Division.
Condolences may be made online at www.andersonburris.com
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