Barbara Lee Adams, longtime resident of Altus, Oklahoma passed away February 5, 2024, at English Village Nursing Home surrounded by her loving family at the age of eighty-three.
On April 12, 1940, in Kansas City, Missouri James Robert and Goldwyn Sylvania (Rucker) Dailey celebrated at the birth of their daughter, Barbara Lee Dailey. Barbara was raised in Missouri and in San Diego, California. In 1969, Barbara took a bus to Altus, Oklahoma looking for a better life. Soon after arriving she met and fell in love with Richard Adams. On July 9, 1970, at the First Baptist Church of Headrick they were united in holy matrimony. Barbara was a homemaker and devote wife and mother. She made her children clothing by hand, and always made sure they had plenty to eat. In 1995 she attended and graduated from cosmetology school. She did hair for as referred to it as the LOLs (Little Old Ladies) at Park Lane Nursing Home and English Village. Barbara was a caretaker, and she was a neighborhood mom who was known to adapt the friends of her kids and treated them as one of her own. For as much as she enjoyed being a mother, becoming a grandmother brought her complete happiness. She cherished every one of her grandchildren and enjoyed spending as much time as she could with them. Barbara was a Christian who had said the sinner's prayer and believed Jesus was the only way for salvation. We know her last breath on this earth was her first in heaven. Barbara Leaves a legacy of love, devotion and compassion to her family.
She was preceded in death by her father, James Robert Dailey; mother, Goldwyn Sylvania (Rucker) Moore; to grandchildren, Jeremy Kelly, Robert Adams; and her beloved husband of forty-one years, Richard Adams.
Left to honor her legacy are her ten children, Jerry Grady and wife Lisa, Donna Fields, Carol Kelly, Jimmy Grady and wife Patty, Trudy Gregory Atkinson, Sherrie Adams, Trina Adams, Brandy Adams, Sue Morris and husband Tim, Louise Lenard and husband Scott, three sisters, Patricia Silva, Sharon Lee Brand and husband Daniel, Kathy Moore-Meyers and husband Kevin, twenty five grandchildren, Tim Vargas and wife Stefanie, Chris Macias and wife Caitlin, Blake Adams, Ricky Adams, Sarena Adams, Dawsen Morris, Alyssa Morris, Wayne Morris, Anthony Powers, twenty-seven great grandchildren, numerous nieces, nephews and other extended family members.
The Adams family will be receiving family from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Thursday, February 8, 2024, at Lowell - Tims Funeral Home.
Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Friday, February 9, 2024, at Lowell - Tims Funeral Home Chapel with Chaplin Erin Martinez officiating.
Funeral services have been entrusted to Lowell - Tims Funeral Home and Crematory, Altus, Oklahoma.
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