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Show All. About IPeople has served as a director on the Senior Citizens Committee in the county. Just as Dick Adams has been generous with his service to community, com-munity, business and church, his generosity in funds and encouragement encourage-ment is felt by his three living daughters and their children. He and Eva are parents of Sharon Loomis, Sally Barton of Layton and Suzanne Ray of Clearfield. Their other daughter, Sherry Davis is deceased. How can you give tribute to an outstanding man without giving tribute tri-bute to his sweetheart and companion. compan-ion. One daughter remembers her mother slipping dinners into the car, so that when Sharon finished teaching Primary on Tuesday afternoon, after-noon, she wouldn't have to go home and fix dinner. "Always the acts of kindness, encouragement and support were there from Mom and Dad. ; . KAYSVILLE-- You can take he man out of the country, but you ;an't take the country out of the nan. You can move Dick Adams,' life long businessman and Layton resident, from Layton to Kaysvil-le, Kaysvil-le, but you can't take Layton out of his heart. You can also take this man's sheep, and horses away, but you'll never take animals out of his blood. Nor can you hold an active, busy man like Dick Adams down. At 80, his deep resnant voice is still strong and vibrant, that of a man 30 or 40 years his junior. He may move a little slower, have a few more health problems than in his youn- offices in Layton and brought in trailers, different models of those they'd checked out on their world tour. So Dick Adams Trailer Sales was born. He has since turned that business over to a grandson Chad Barton. He later built the first storage stor-age sheds in Layton. He still gets up and goes to those offices every day. In 1963 Dick ran for the State Legislature and won on a Republican Republi-can ticket with "growth and further furth-er development for Davis County" and "a vote for Dick is a vote for progress" as his themes. In 'meeting' Dick Adams, his love and service to the community is evident. His lifetime love affair with Layton has seen him serve on the Layton Chamber of Commerce, Com-merce, on the Layton City Coun- . cil, a director in the Layton Kiwa-nis Kiwa-nis Club, and a president of Layton Lions Club. He's always been active ac-tive in his church, giving years of service on the ward welfare committee, com-mittee, where he worked with mill assignments. He has also served on the Layton Stake Aaronic Priesthood Priest-hood Adult Committee. Not only did he give service in the state legislature, leg-islature, but served on the State Republican Central Committee, served seven yars on the Utah State Transit Authority Board and DICK ADAMS ger years, but on the whole, he's a very young 80. What keeps him younger than most at 80? Maybe his love of live, his love of wife and companion of 60years, Eve, theirfourdaughters, 12 grandchildren and 1 1 grandchildren. grandchil-dren. Or his desire to keep contributing; contri-buting; looking for a reason to get up and get going. All of his life he's had a drive, a reason to get up and get going. Dick is a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Adams, and grandson of Elias Adams. Dick's father had a butcher butch-er shop in Layton that Dick ran for awhile. He was born in Thatcher, Utah but at an early age moved to Layton where he attended school until the eighth grade. For some, just an eighth grade education would be a terrible handicap, hand-icap, for Dick his gift of talking and associating with people led him to a life of one business venture to another. Dick and Eve Riley from Bountiful Bounti-ful were married in 1926 in the Logan Temple. They made their new home in Layton. Eve taught school and Dick went into the oil business as a jobber for Phillips Petroleum. From that small beginning, he ended up owning a sheep ranch, his own distributing business, along with over 100 gas and service stations sta-tions - his emphasis on service. His first service station in 1930 was the first one in Layton. In 1962 he sold and leased his gas and oil business and service stations. sta-tions. He and Eva traveled around the world, not content to just travel, ideas kept coming on a new business. By the time they got back home, they knew what new business busi-ness they wanted. They put new |
