ADAMS, Fannie Alice

ADAMS, ULIN, REASONER

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Date: 9/15/2003 at 14:26:15

December 20, 1945 Morning Sun News-Herald.

Fannie Alice Adams, 86, lifelong resident of Morning Sun, died at a sanitarium in Macon, Missouri, Tuesday after being in failing health for several months.

The daughter of Rev. John Roger and Amanda Ulin Reasoner, she was born at Andersonville, Indiana, May 6, 1859. She was a member of the Morning Sun Methodist church. She was married to H.M. Adams, local barber who died in 1935.

Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Ethyl Lewis of St. Paul Minnesota, and a son, Don Adams of Sigourney, Iowa

December 27, 1945 Morning Sun News Herald. I am not related and have no further information.

Fannie Alice Adams, daughter of the Rev. John H. Reasoner and Amanda M. Ulin Reasoner, was born May 6, 1859 at Anderson, Indiana and died Tuesday, December 18, 1945 aged 86 years, 7 months and 12 days.

She was united in marriage to Harvey M. Adams in Washington County, Iowa, in 1878 and came to Morning Sun about 62 years ago where they since have made their home. To this union was born one son, Don Adams of Sigourney, Iowa and Mrs. Thomas J. (Ethyl) Lewis of St. Paul, Minnesota. She also leaves to mourn their loss two grandsons, Don Junior and Richard H. Adams and two great grandchildren, Don Adams III and Betty Jean Adams, all of Sigourney, Iowa. She also is survived by one half sister, Mrs. Clara Berry of Springfield, Missouri, and one half brother, Col. Matthew A. Reasoner of Alton, Illinois.

Mrs. Adams, daughter of a Methodist minister, was brought up in that historical period when it was not only the custom but the law of the church that pastors should move every one to three years with all of its perils and advantages to the family life.

At one time her father was financial agent for Iowa Wesleyan University at Mt. Pleasant and she took advantage of the opportunity to attend Howe's Academy and later the college. She was artistically and especially musically inclined and under the training of Dr. Rommel, long known as the Dean of Iowa musicians her talent was highly developed. She so mastered the technique of her art and committed to memory such a score of musical treasures that she was never at a loss to entertain herself or any company with which she was associated.

Mrs. Adams was the last of the charter members of the Sorosis Society, a cultural organization, in Morning Sun, started in 1899. It was characteristic of her that she kept a complete set of their annual programs and much of the newspaper history of their major events.

She was a charter member of the Home Club, a social organization of many years standing; the Neighborhood Club, more resently started but her highest devotion and deepest loyalties were to Christ and her church. Always an interested member of the women's societies and Sunday School, a faithful attendant of the services and supporter of its local and missionary program throughout the world. Her memory was filled with the rich experiences of a lifetime of Christian fellowship and out of her appreciation she chose as one of the hymns to be sung at this service, "Blest Be the Tie That Binds Our Hearts in Christian Love."

She has been in failing health for about three years but would not admit it to herself or to her friends. Even her physicians were amazed at her vital resources in spite of her known physical condition. She reminded one constantly of Tennyson's "Ulysses:"

"I will drink life to the lees,
All times I have enjoyed.
I am a part of all that I have met
Yet all experience is an arch where through
Gleams in that untravelled world whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move,
Now dull it is to pause to make an end,
To rust unburnished not to shine in use."

Or of Abraham of whom it was said that: "He looked for a city which had foundations, whose builder and maker is God."

O sweet and blessed country,
The home of God's elect!
O sweet and blessed country
That eager hearts expect!

Jesus in mercy bring us to that dear land of rest;
Who art, with God the Father and Spirit, ever blest."