*Claude and Agnes Adams
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Claude and Agnes Adams

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Birth Date:  Nov. 13, 1906 Birth Date:  Nov. 9, 1908
Death Date:   Oct. 18, 1997   Death Date:   Oct. 12, 1978


Biography

Claude Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. ADAMS, was born in Gregg, CO. Nov. 13, 1906. His family moved to Hall Co. when he was about four years old. His father managed a cotton gin there for several years. From there the family moved to Acuff, Lubbock Co., in 1924, and were in the gin business there.

Agnes PITTS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. PITTS, was born in Falls County Nov. 9, 1908 and moved to the Acuff Community in 1926. After finishing high school at Acuff and completing a business course in Lubbock, she and Claude were married May 5, 1929, at the First Methodist Church parsonage on Broadway in Lubbock. They resided in Lubbock until July of the same year when they moved to Savage to manage the gin there.

Three daughters were born to Claude and Agnes during the time they were at Savage. Mary Frances, who resides in Los Angeles, Calif.; Claudia Fae, who married Dr. Norman ANDERSON, Jr., and lives in El Paso, and has three daughters; Patricia Jane who married John SCALES and has one daughter.

While living at Savage, Claude was instrumental in getting rural electrification in that community along with telephones and several miles of pavement. He spent a lot of time securing the interest of the people and getting the right of way easements. For several years the telephone at the gin and the one in the Adams residence were the only ones in the community.

They sold their gin interests in 1954, built a home in Ralls and bought farms at Savage and Farmer. Claude later served as Mayor of Ralls and during his term in office several streets were paved and the old auditorium on the square was torn down and a new office building was erected on the lot of the town square.

The Adams belonged to the United Methodist Church in Ralls. Claude was a Mason and Rotarian, Agnes was a member of Ralls Chapter #169, Order of the Eastern Star and also the Ralls Study Club. Claude´s hobby was fishing and Agnes enjoyed oil painting.


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Mother of Agnes: Mrs. Levi Pitts born 2/17/1877 at Melbourne, Ark. daughter of John Helm, lived with son Tom Pitts in Brownfield where she is buried. Another daughter Mrs Richard Moore lived in Tatum, NM at the time of her death.

Obituary

Agnes Adams, a well-known Ralls artist and art teacher, was claimed by death at 2:45 p.m. last Thursday in Methodist Hospital, Lubbock, following an illness spanning six weeks. Mrs. Adams was 69.

Funeral rites were at 2 p.m. Saturday in Ralls First United Methodist Church. Officiating were Rev. Howard Marcom, pastor, Rev. Dick Richards of Bovina, and Rev. Floyd Haddock, pastor of First Baptist Church in Ralls. Interment was made in Ralls Cemetery.

Born in Falls County, the former Agnes Pitts moved to the South Plains in 1925 and married C.M. Adams on May 5, 1929 in Lubbock. The family went to Ralls in 1929.

Mrs. Adams organized the Joy Club of the First United Methodist Church in Ralls and held membership in the Order of the Eastern Star, Ralls First United Methodist Church, Ralls Study Club and Ralls Garden Club.

Survivors include her husband, Claude; three daughters, Frances Adams of Los Angeles, Calif., Claudia Anderson of El Paso and Pat Scales of Farmington, NM.; a brother, T.R. Pitts of Brownfield; a sister, Mae Moore of Farmington, NM; and four grandchildren.

©Crosbyton Review, October 19, 1978

Services for Claude M. Adams, 90, of Ralls were held at 2 p.m. Monday, October 20, 1997, in the Ralls First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Ron Colwell, pastor, and Rev. Jim Morrow, pastor of the of Ralls First Baptist Church, officiating.

Burial followed in the Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.

Mr. Adams died at 1:05 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, 1997, in Lubbock´s Methodist hospital following an illness.

He was born Nov. 13, 1906, in Longview, TX. He married Agnes Pitts on May 5, 1929, in Lubbock. She preceded him in death Oct. 12, 1978. He married Annie Greenwood Henry on April 14, 1985, in Ralls. He was a member of the Ralls Methodist Church where he had served on all the church boards and was a Lay Leader of the church and was the District Lay Leader of the Lubbock District. He was a member of the Emma Masonic Lodge #931 and a Charter member of the Lubbock Scottish Rite. He was a member of the Ralls Rotary Club and the Ralls Cemetery Association.

He was named Ralls Outstanding Citizen in 1962 and Crosby County Democratic Chairman in 1965. He served as Mayor of Ralls from 1960-1962. While Mayor of Ralls he helped get 80 blocks of streets paved and curbed and a new city office built on the City Square. He was formerly the President of the Ralls School Board where he served on the board for several years. He started the Rio Blanco Soil and Water Conservation in Crosby County and was selected Conservative Farmer of the Year in 1970.

He was a 1924 graduate of Lakeview High School. He moved from Hall County in 1924 to Acuff then to Savage in 1929 then to Ralls in 1954. . While living in Savage he was instrumental in getting rural electrification and telephones in that community and other areas. He was the manager and later the owner of the Savage Gin and partner of several other cotton gins.

Survivors include his wife, Annie Adams of Ralls; three daughters, Frances Adams of Los Angeles, Claudia Anderson of El Paso and Pat Scales of Lubbock; two stepsons, Fred Henry of Temple and Lee Dale Henry of Abilene; a sister, Almeda Diggs of Ralls; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Two grandchildren Karen Malouf, Jeannie Anderson, preceded him in death in 1983.

Pallbearers were James Boydstun, Bill Lyle, Earl C. Abell, Harley Reese, Gene McLaughlin, and James Stokes.

Honorary pallbearers were Gerald Collier, J.B. Prewitt, Wesley Ferguson, Bill Mayes, Bill McKee, and Walker Watkins.

©Crosby County News & Chronicle Friday, October 24, 1997




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