Mrs. CHARLES (Ada P. Burnham) Adams KROM 1890-1979

BURNHAM, KROM, HALSEY, LAWSON, ADAMS

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Date: 5/5/2005 at 07:01:17

Mrs. CHARLES (Ada P. {Burnham} Adams) KROM

Ada Pearl (Burnham) Krom, 88, of Waukon, died April 9, 1979 at the Good Samaritan Center, Waukon.

Ada Krom was born May 21, 1890 on a farm near Monona, the daughter of Charles and Luella (Halsey) Burnham.

She attended the "Red School" near Volney and was baptized into, and a member of, the Methodist Church in Volney.

She married Orrin Adams December 9, 1908 and to this union two children were born: one daughter, Reva and one son, Harold.

She later married Charles Krom May 2, 1934 and they farmed north of Luana until moving to Waukon in 1966.

Survivors include: her husband Charles; one daughter, Mrs. Cloy (Reva) Lawson, Postville; one son, Harold Adams, Gladstone,Ore.; nine grandchildren; 21 great grandchildren; one great-great-granddaughter; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two sisters and one brother.

Funeral services were held Wednesday, April 11 at 1:30 p.m. in the Martin Funeral Chapel in Waukon. The Rev. Carroll Brown officiated.

Burial was in Smithfield Cemetery, near Volney.

Postville Herald - contributed by Mary Durr