Besides being a superb wife and mother, she was an accomplished stenographer, office manager and accountant. Her early career was associated with civil construction projects in Texas and Arkansas and then later with the federal government in Arkansas and Nebraska. She was 57 years of age when she earned her associate degree in accounting with honors from Metropolitan Community College in Omaha. Being a gifted seamstress, she enjoyed retirement most when she could be inside doing her quilting or spend time outside tending to her flowers.

Maurice, along with her husband, retired from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers of Omaha in January 1992.

She was a member of the First Lutheran Church of Blair, NE.

Margaret Maurice (Stewart) Adams, age 80, of York, Nebraska, formerly of Fort Calhoun, Nebraska, died Thursday, October 27, 2005 at York.

Preceding her in death were her parents and only sibling Irvin L. Stewart.

Left to cherish her memory are her husband, Ronald J. Adams; sons and spouses, Michael S. and Paula Berry of Edgemont, Arkansas, Ronald J. Jr. and Ruth L. Adams of York; grandchildren Renee (Berry) Smith and Adam Berry of Arkansas, Timothy, David, Alexander and Janelle Adams, all of York; great-granddaughter Alyssa Nicole Smith. Also surviving is a very close sister-in-law Lucile Garrett of Benton, Arkansas.

Funeral services will be held on Monday, October 31, 2005 at 10:00 am at the Metz Mortuary chapel in York, followed by graveside services at the Fort Calhoun Cemetery at Fort Calhoun, NE at 2:30 pm.

Honorary casket bearers were Tom Anderson, Jeff Bowser, Robert Fitzgerald, Bob Slechta, Tom Gitter, and Gary Nelson.

Visitation will be from 2-9 pm on Sunday with family greeting relatives and friends from 6-8 pm. Memorials in lieu of flowers to donor's choice or Alzheimer's Assn.

~~~from obituaries courtesy of the Nebraska Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Public Library, Blair, Nebraska~~~

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