Submitted by: Dan Rich

 

Gene L. Adams

April 30, 1928 - Oct. 26, 1996.

 

South Bend Tribune 10/28/1996

WALKERTON - Gene L. ''Diny'' Adams, 68, of 20102 3rd B Road, died at 7:55 p.m. Saturday in the Veterans Administration Center in Indianapolis after a long illness. Mr. Adams was born April 30, 1928 in North Liberty to Leo and Sylvia (Lowry) Adams and lived in the area all of his life.

 

On Nov. 20, 1949, in North Liberty, he married Anna DePew. She survives with one son, William of Koontz Lake; three grandsons, Nicholas Bert, Thomas Gene and William Curtis, all of Denver, Colo.; two sisters, Leora Brugh of New Carlisle and Marge Paul of South Bend; and a brother, Rudy Adams of Walkerton. He was a U.S. Army veteran of the Korean War and a member of the North Liberty American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.

 

Services will be at 11 a.m., EST, Tuesday in Rannells Funeral Home, Koontz Lake Chapel. Burial will be in the East Lawn Cemetery, North Liberty. Friends may call from 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m., EST, Monday and 9 a.m. until services Tuesday in the funeral home.