Artie "Agnes" Adams

Agnes PITTS, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. PITTS, was born in Falls County Nov. 9, 1908 and moved to the Acuff Community in 1926. After finishing high school at Acuff and completing a business course in Lubbock, she and Claude were married May 5, 1929, at the First Methodist Church parsonage on Broadway in Lubbock. They resided in Lubbock until July of the same year when they moved to Savage to manage the gin there.
Agnes was a member of Ralls Chapter #169, Order of the Eastern Star and also the Ralls Study Club. Agnes enjoyed oil painting.

Obituary
Agnes Adams, a well-known Ralls artist and art teacher, was claimed by death at 2:45 p.m. last Thursday in Methodist Hospital, Lubbock, following an illness spanning six weeks. Mrs. Adams was 69.
Funeral rites were at 2 p.m. Saturday in Ralls First United Methodist Church. Officiating were Rev. Howard Marcom, pastor, Rev. Dick Richards of Bovina, and Rev. Floyd Haddock, pastor of First Baptist Church in Ralls. Interment was made in Ralls Cemetery.
Born in Falls County, the former Agnes Pitts moved to the South Plains in 1925 and married C.M. Adams on May 5, 1929 in Lubbock. The family went to Ralls in 1929.
Mrs. Adams organized the Joy Club of the First United Methodist Church in Ralls and held membership in the Order of the Eastern Star, Ralls First United Methodist Church, Ralls Study Club and Ralls Garden Club.
Survivors include her husband, Claude; three daughters, Frances Adams of Los Angeles, Calif., Claudia Anderson of El Paso and Pat Scales of Farmington, NM.; a brother, T.R. Pitts of Brownfield; a sister, Mae Moore of Farmington, NM; and four grandchildren.
Crosbyton Review, October 19, 1978