CHARLEY S. ADAMS, 86

Charley S. Adams, 86, died Thursday, May 20, 2004, at his home in Blair.

Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, May 25, at Campbell-Aman Funeral Home. Interment will be in the Blair Cemetery.

Charley S. Adams was born Feb. 6, 1918, near Onawa, Iowa, to Major and Grace (Johnson) Adams.

On Aug. 24, 1940, he married Shirley Wells in Sidney, Iowa. The couple farmed in the Fort Calhoun area until 1963. They then moved to Blair, where Charley began working for the Nebraska Road Deparment, where he was a foreman. He retired from the road department in 1983.

He is survived by his wife, Shirley; two daughters, Karen Adams of Omaha and Ronda Dryden of Blair; son, Mark Adams of Blair; six grandchildren; three sisters and brothers-in-law, Inez and Duane Layton of Modale, Iowa; Eunice and Clifford Stueve of Missouri Valley, Iowa, and Maxine Osburn of Rogers, Ark.; brother, Donald Adams of Modale, Iowa.

He was preceded in death by a son, Steven; two brothers, and two sisters.

#2-Printed in the Omaha World Herald on 5/23/2004

ADAMS - Charley, age 86, Blair. Survived by wife, Shirley; 1 son, Mark, Blair; Karen Adams, Omaha; 6 grandchildren; 3 sisters, Inez Layton, Modale, IA, Eunice Stueve, Missouri Valley, Maxine Osburn, Rogers, AR; brother, Donald, Modale, IA. MEMORIAL SERVIE 10 am Tues., Campbell Aman Funeral Home. Burial Blair Cemetery. NO VISITATION. CAMPBELL-AMAN FUNERAL HOME Blair, NE 402-426-2191

Obituaries courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.