Services for H. J. Adams, 77, Asher, were at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 20, 1987 in the Wanette Pentecostal Holiness Church. He died Saturday January 17, 1987 in a Tecumseh nursing home.

The Rev. Eugene Snow officiated. Burial followed in the Wanette Cemetery under the direction of Cooper Funeral Home, Tecumseh.

Adams was born May 1, 1909 in Murphy, N. C. to Lloyd and Nina Adams. In 1911 he moved to Manitou, Oklahoma.

On December 19, 1925, he married Elzy L. Hogue in Frederick, Oklahoma.

During World War II he served with the United States Navy in the South Pacific.

A contractor and housepainter, Adams lived near Asher since 1973. He was a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Adams was preceded in death by his parents, three brothers and one sister.

Survivors include his wife, Elzy Adams of the home; four sons, Jody Adams, Pearson; Henry Adams, Cobb, Georgia; the Rev. Jay Adams, Seminole; Dwain Adams, Tribbey; two daughters, Dorothy Stevens, Prague; Nina H. Poplin, Fairfax; one brother, George Adams, Garden Grove, California; two sisters, Nola Roark, Winfield, Kansas; Estelle Dodson, Frederick; one granddaughter, Lorie Ann Davis, Oklahoma City; twenty grandchildren, twenty great grandchildren; and one great great grandson.