Velma Verlee Adams

ADAMS, THOMPSON, TEEL, BOWDRE, BROKAW, GAISSERT, MORTON, VARNER, TUGGY, BECKMAN

Posted By: David L. Skipton (email)
Date: 3/15/2009 at 16:55:57

The Columbus Gazette, March 21, 1991.

Private graveside services for Velma Verlee Adams, 77, Carson City, Colorado, resident for the past 35 years, were held at Walton's Carson Gardens on March 6, 1991.

Mrs. Adams died Saturday, March 2, 1991, at a local convalescent center. She was born August 17, 1913, in Columbus Junction, Iowa, the daughter of Marcellus and Laura Mae Thompson Teel.

She married Jasper Adams November 29, 1959, in Minden. Mrs. Adams lived in Iowa before moving to Carson City.

She worked for International Harvester Corporation in Moline, Illinois. During World War II and the Korean Conflict, she worked at the Rock Island Arsenal in Illinois.

Upon retiring, she was a homemaker and an avid gardener. Mrs. Adams was a member of the Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Glen, Ray, and Louis Teel; and a sister, Gayle Bowdre.

Among her survivors are her husband, Jasper, of Carson City; a stepdaughter, Elizabeth Brokaw of Goldendale, Washington; two brothers, Francis Teel, Winthrop, and Randall Teel of Grandview; five sisters, Irene Gaissert of Golfport, Florida, Dorothy Morton of Gravois Mills, Missouri, Carol Varner of Galesburg, Illinois, Eunice Tuggy of LaMirada, California, and Mildred Beckman of Burlington; and numerous nieces and nephews.