Claude Maurice Adams

Services for Claude M. Adams, 90, of Ralls were held at 2 p.m. Monday, October 20, 1997, in the Ralls First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Ron Colwell, pastor, and Rev. Jim Morrow, pastor of the of Ralls First Baptist Church, officiating. Burial followed in the Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.

Mr. Adams died at 1:05 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, 1997, in Lubbock´s Methodist hospital following an illness.

He was born Nov. 13, 1906, in Longview, TX. He married Agnes Pitts on May 5, 1929, in Lubbock. She preceded him in death Oct. 12, 1978. He married Annie Greenwood Henry on April 14, 1985, in Ralls. He was a member of the Ralls Methodist Church where he had served on all the church boards and was a Lay Leader of the church and was the District Lay Leader of the Lubbock District. He was a member of the Emma Masonic Lodge #931 and a Charter member of the Lubbock Scottish Rite. He was a member of the Ralls Rotary Club and the Ralls Cemetery Association.

He was named Ralls Outstanding Citizen in 1962 and Crosby County Democratic Chairman in 1965. He served as Mayor of Ralls from 1960-1962. While Mayor of Ralls he helped get 80 blocks of streets paved and curbed and a new city office built on the City Square. He was formerly the President of the Ralls School Board where he served on the board for several years. He started the Rio Blanco Soil and Water Conservation in Crosby County and was selected Conservative Farmer of the Year in 1970.

He was a 1924 graduate of Lakeview High School. He moved from Hall County in 1924 to Acuff then to Savage in 1929 then to Ralls in 1954. . While living in Savage he was instrumental in getting rural electrification and telephones in that community and other areas. He was the manager and later the owner of the Savage Gin and partner of several other cotton gins.

Survivors include his wife, Annie Adams of Ralls; three daughters, Frances Adams of Los Angeles, Claudia Anderson of El Paso and Pat Scales of Lubbock; two stepsons, Fred Henry of Temple and Lee Dale Henry of Abilene; a sister, Almeda Diggs of Ralls; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Two grandchildren Karen Malouf, Jeannie Anderson, preceded him in death in 1983.

Pallbearers were James Boydstun, Bill Lyle, Earl C. Abell, Harley Reese, Gene McLaughlin, and James Stokes.

Honorary pallbearers were Gerald Collier, J.B. Prewitt, Wesley Ferguson, Bill Mayes, Bill McKee, and Walker Watkins.

©Crosby County News & Chronicle Friday, October 24, 1997