Sue Louise Adamson's Obituary
Sue Louise Adamson of Moline, Kansas, passed away November 5, 2016, at Sedan City Hospital in Sedan, Kansas. Sue was born July 9, 1921, at the Shaffer Hospital (currently known as the Shaffer House) in Moline to Frank and Doris Womacks.
After graduating from Moline High School in 1939, Sue then moved to Wichita to attend secretarial school and worked in a boarding house. After she finished her training, she worked for a while as secretary in Parsons and Longton.
At a dance in Longton, she met and later married her husband, Orval on June 27, 1942. Orval’s occupation as an electrical journeyman took them to various job sites in Tennessee, Louisiana and Texas. Sue and Orval’s family expanded with three children. In Texas their first child Aaron was born two years later. Robert was born in Moline and about two years later, Anita was born in Illinois.
The family later moved to Grenola and a few years later moved to Moline where she lived until she moved to Pleasant Valley Nursing Home in Sedan for the last two years.
Sue worked at the Army surplus store in Moline. She went to college at Emporia State University and then taught music and kindergarten in Moline. Later she had a preschool daycare in her home. She also worked in the nursing home in Moline as a CNA.
She was a hard-worker, a devoted mother and wife; she loved people and especially fond of children.
Sue was never unkind or critical of anyone and always thought the best of everyone. She was the optimist of all optimists, always cheerful, very generous and always thinking of others and not herself.
Her greatest passion besides family and friends was her love of art and painting. She loved music and played the violin. She was a 50 year plus member of the Eastern Star and belonged to the Music and Literary Club along with being involved with the United Methodist Women. She was an avid gardener, filling her yard and home with a variety of plants and flowers.
Sue Adamson is survived by her children, Aaron Adamson of Wickenberg, Arizona, Bob Adamson of Moline, Kansas, and Anita Wilson of Thayer, Kansas, and her sister, Jean Womacks of Independence, Kansas, as well as 10 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. Sue is preceded in death by her brother Bill Womacks.
Visitation will be Thursday, November 10, 2016 from 5:00-7:00 pm. at Countryside Funeral Home, 206 E. Washington, in Howard, Kansas. Funeral services will be held on Friday, November 11, 2016 at 2:00 pm. at the Moline United Methodist Church with Pastor Dorothy Ellsworth officiating. The family has suggested memorials to the Moline United Methodist Church and they may be left with the funeral home.
Arrangements made with Countryside Funeral Home, 206 E. Washington, Howard, Kansas. Online condolences may be left at www.countrysidefh.com
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