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Show Heart Attack Claims .Prominent Taiowan Resident r MRS. CECIL ADAMS Mrs. Cecil Tearl Tebbs Adams, . 56, prominent civic and church worker of Tarowan and southern - Utah, died In her sleep at her home here early Sunday morning bora a he ut, aliment. She had -suffered from a chronic heart 'condition , for several years, but had apparently felt as well as : usual upon retiring Saturday - irjght She was the wife of " -Claude W. Adam?, Parowan High School science teacher. Mrs. Adams was born In Pan- guiteh, April 7, 1904, a d".,,u-l . ter of Mr. and Mrs. Burns Tebbs. 1 :She spent her early life there vhere she attended local schools, i Xater she attended the Wasatch I Academy In Mt. Pleasant, St. Marys of the Wasatch academy In Salt Lake City and Brigham Young University at Provo. She had taught school at MUford, Pangultch and In the Parowan elementary schools. ."She was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Latter-day Saints and had been active .In all of Its auxiliary organizations. organiza-tions. She fulfilled a mission In rxhe Eastern States, entering the field when she was but 18 years f age. She had served In the rrlmary presidency of her ward and was In the Parowan Stake Belief Society presidency for ten vmrs. She had also taught In the tchurch seminary for a year. At the time of her death she was speech director In the Parowan Second Ward MIA. She was a charter member of the Pangultch Better Homes and -Gardens Club and had served as .FT A president both at Pangultch and Parowan. She was a member -of the Parowan Literary Club and ailso of the Escalante Knife and Fork Club. . , . She was married to Claude 'Whitney Adams In the Salt Lake ' IDS Temple on Sept 5, 1928 and I SJiy lived i Pur.jjultc! 'n number of years before moving to Parowan. Surviving are her Siusband of Parowan and two sons and two daughters. They 'are Mrs. Richard J. (Claudia) llalterman, Salt Lake City; Mrs. Wallace G. (Joan) Lee, Pan-Eultch', Pan-Eultch', Tebbs Adams, Dugway, and David Adams, Parowan. Also surviving are five grandchildren; her mother, Mrs. Ruth Tebbs, two brothers, Ray and Dan Tebbs Pangultch, two sisters, Mrs. Don-aid Don-aid A. (Addle) Miller and Mrs. Veky (Ruth) Buttcrfleld, both of Salt Lake City. Funeral services were held for Mrs. Adams Wednesday at 2 p. m. In the First-Second Ward chapel under the direction of Bishop George F. Rowley and I burial took place In the Parowan City cemetery. - . . |