Adams, Leonetta "Babe" Gladys 1916-1983

ADAMS, BUCK, VAN AMDALAN

Posted By: Doris Hoffman, Volunteer (email)
Date: 4/19/2021 at 16:17:22

Note: Leonetta is the daughter of Leonard and Mary Mattie Van Amdalan Buck. She has a gravestone listed in Riverside Cemeteryas Leonetta G Buck 1916 with no death date. She however was never buried there but was buried beside her husband Wayne at Pleasant View Cemetery at Hartley. .

LEONETTA "BABE" ADAMS

Services were held for Leonetta (Babe) Adams at the Baumgarten Funeral Home in Hartley Thursday morning, January 27. Rev. William Tomlinson officiated. Burial was at the Pleasant View Cemetery at Hartley. The casket bearers were Wesley Buck Jr., Dennis Sittler, Rodney Raabe, Jerry Reed, LeRoy Raabe and Kevin Peterson.

Leonetta Gladys (Babe) Adams, the daughter of Leonard and Mary Mattie Van Amdalan Buck, was born January 6, 1916 at Alberta, Canada. She was united in marriage to Wayne Adams on September 1, 1954 in South Sioux City, Nebraska and they had made their home at Council Bluffs, Iowa since 1955.

She worked for several businesses in Council Bluffs and for Frito Lay Company for four years. She always enjoyed bowling and had bowled in several leagues.

She passed away at Mercy Hospital in Council Bluffs on January 24, 1983 after a long illness.

Preceding her in death were her father and one brother.

Left to cherish her memory ate her husband, Wayne; her mother, Mrs. Margaret Marley of Council Bluffs; one brother, Wesley Buck of Sioux City, other relatives and friends.

Hartley Sentinel, Hartley, Iowa, Feb 3, 1983, p9