Monday, April 29, 2024
Maurine Adams, age 90, of Evant, passed away on Tuesday, January 24, 2023.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, February 4, 2023, at Pearl Country Church, with Rev. David Booth officiating. Interment will follow at Pearl Cemetery. The family will receive visitors from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday, February 2, at Scott’s Funeral Home.
Alice Maurine Adams was born on March 8, 1932, in Midland to the late Farris and Irene Dillard Landis. She married Johnnie Lloyd Adams on August 6, 1949, in Iredell. They resided in the Pearl community for 50 years. She worked for the Evant Independent School District for 45 years as a teacher aide, bus driver and substitute teacher. She touched countless lives with her commitment to education. She often talked about all her good friends and fond memories that she had from the school, church, and community. She enjoyed cooking, sewing, gardening, crafting, and traveling. She moved to Evant in 2000 and was very active in the Evant Gardening Club and Keno Club. She was a longtime active member of Pearl Country Church, formerly Pearl Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lloyd Adams, on October 8, 2008; sisters, Carrie Self, Sherry Hunt; and a son-in-law Monty Barnes.
Maurine is survived by her daughters, Phyllis Barnes of Kempner, Stacy Perez and husband, Ron, of Salado; sister, Norvell Hernandez and husband, Paul, of Ruidoso, New Mexico; grandchildren, Bill Reneau and wife, Crystal, Justin Perez, Lauren Perez, Lexy Burns, Brad Perez and wife, Karley; and 14 great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to Pearl Country Church, c/o Connie Long, 5685 CR 139, Gatesville, TX 76528.
