Thursday, August 14th, 2008
Jean Adams
Jean A. Adams, 82, of Mendon, died the morning of Aug. 13, 2008, at The Laurels of Shane Hill, Rockford.
She was born Jan. 13, 1926, in St. Marys, to Lafe and Hazel Hussey Dicke. On Sept. 19, 1948, she married John F. Adams, who survives.
Other survivors are two daughters, Janice (Dennis) Clay, Mendon, and Joyce (Brian) Burckholter, Antwerp; three brothers, Richard (Anna Rose) Dicke, Mena, Ark., Robert Dicke, Lakeview, and Larry (Betty) Dicke, St. Marys; a sister, Wilda (Jim) Allison, New Lexington; three grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Deceased are two brothers, Wilfred and Carl Dicke; and a sister, Elizabeth Schnarre.
She retired from the from the former Third National Bank, Celina, and served on the board of the Mercer County Council on Aging. She was a member of the Mendon United Methodist Church, the Mercer County Farm Bureau and the Mendon Women's Civic Club. She was a 1943 graduate of Memorial High School, St. Marys.
Services are 1 p.m. Saturday at W.H. Dick & Sons-Hellwarth Funeral Home, Mendon, the Rev. Paul Bunnell officiating. Burial is at Mendon Cemetery.
Calling is 2-4 and 6-8 p.m. Friday and 12:30-1 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Contributions can be made to the Auglaize-Mercer Alzheimer's Support Group.
Condolences can be sent to dick.hellwarth@verizonmail.com.
