Ruth's address is 1504 NE 140th Street, Seattle, Washington98125. (Verle 2.97)

'I was born in Seattle, Washington, in a house near Greenlake -523 North 68th Street - which is still standing, much to myamazement. I can look at it now and wonder how my mother managedto carry me up and down all those steps every day. When I wasbetween two and three we follwoed Daddy to Sheridan, Wyoming,and then to Anaconda, Montana where I began school. Daddy workedat the huge smelter that could be seen from anywhere in town. Iremember three times while we were there - about three years,and life was very interesting.'
'Returning to Seattle, I spent the rest of my school years inthe north end of Seattle, going to McDonald and Fairview GradeSchoools, Marshall Junior High and Roosevelt High School. Nextcame the University of Washington where I majored in HomeEconomics, heading for a teaching career. In my senior year,however, I was married (December 28, 1941) to Albert HamiltonAdams and finished my college years by correspondence,graduating in August 1942. We were in Cambridge, Mas. by thattime where Al was attending Harvard Business School. I followedhim to Petersburg, Virginia, and Macomb, Illinois, as he enteredarmy duty in the Quartermaster Corps. Then he was offto the Solomon Islands and the Philippines for two and a halfyears. He returned a Captain, but wasted no time in getting outof the army. He had graduated previously from Washington Statein Poultry Husbandry, so we moved to Bellingham, Washington,where his first job was with the Washington Chick Association asOffice Manager and Controller. His first love of having apoultry farm of his own got the best of him when he found a nicefarm with a "city" type house near Snohomish, and we movedin December 1948 with our son, born in Bellingham, March 24,1947.'
'The farm years strecthed to 1955, with a two year time periodspent back in the army during the Korean War. By then we hadMartha Lynne, born March 23, 1949, and Al was again assigned toFort Lee, Virginia, this time as an instructor in theQuartermaster School. Martha was very ill with nephrosis andspent most of her time in the hsopital in Richmond, and thenJohns Hopkins in Baltimore. Cynthia Ruth was born May 6, 1952at the Fort Lee hospital while we were living in Petersburg. Wehad moved from Hopewell on the other side of the Fort in orderto have more room for the new baby and for Martha who had to bein isolation when at home. This was fascinating country asit was on the James River and in the midst of the Civil WarCountry with the "Battle of the Crater" just a block from ourhome in Petresburg.'
'We returned to the farm in September of 1952. When Martha nededa home teacher for 1st grade we moved to seattle, View Ridge,June 1955, and the farm was eventually sold.'
'Martha died after a long seven year illness in November 1957.We moved in June 1958 to Sheridan Heights, Seattle, where thefamily lived for the next 22 years. Carol Louise Admas was bornJuly 31, 1959. The children all attended Shoreline Schools, withDoug going on for his doctorate at University of Chicago; Cyndyattending Lewis and Clark in Portland one year and thengraduating from Washington State, MSW from Eastern WashingtonUniversity; and an M Div. from Church Divinity School of thePacific. Carol attended University of Puget Sound for one yearand then transferred to Washington State School ofArchitecture.'
'Al left for California in 1964 where he now lives in Yreka withhis second wife, Velma.'
'I have worked for the last seventeen years as Secretary to theBishop of Olympia, Episcopal Church in Western Washington, firstIvol Ira Curtis, and then for the last six years, Robert HumeCochrane. As the children are seldom home now, the SheridanHeights home is sold and I live in a triplex owned by formerSheridan neighbours. Douglas is married to Linda Mary Wales(June 10, 1977) and they live in Moscow, Idaho with their smallson, Howard Allen (November 18, 1978). Cyndy lives inBerkley, California, where she is finishing her degree nextmonth. Carol is at Washington State University, and will be fortwo more years.' (Written by Ruth approx. 1983) (Verle 2.97)

Obituary
Ruth Ethel (Smith) Adams was born in Seattle, January 16th, 1921, the third child of Roy Elmer Smith and Ethel Annie (Duckering) Smith. Except for a stint in Anaconda, MT in the first grade, she spent her childhood in Seattle, graduating from Roosevelt High School in January 1939. She met her future husband, Albert Hamilton Adams, at Roosevelt in her junior Chemistry class. They were married in late December, 1941, shortly after Pearl Harbor. Her husband having been sent to business school at Harvard by the army, they spent the earliest months of their married life in Cambridge and then in Virginia and Illinois before he was sent overseas. Shortly after the war was over they bought a poultry farm near Snohomish, WA and lived there, except for a short time in Virginia during the Korean War, until they sold the farm and moved back to Seattle in the mid fifties for a more conventional, non-farm life. Four children were born of this marriage: Douglas, Martha (who died of kidney disease at the age of eight), Cynthia, and Carol. The marriage later ended in divorce.

Ruth began her professional life working for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts in Boston, and except for short period at Grandma’s Cookies (where she was perforce a Teamster), worked in the Church for her working life: at University Congregational in Seattle, St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, and, later, for the Episcopal Diocese of Olympia (in Seattle) where she was eventually the personal secretary of two bishops, Ivol I. Curtis and Robert Cochrane, and was elected to the diocesan Standing Committee. After her retirement she lived for many years in the North End of Seattle and, finally, so as to be near her oldest daughter, in Mount Vernon, WA.

She is survived by her children, Douglas Adams (Linda), Cynthia Adams (Fenicia Burke), Carol Lloyd (Brian), two grandsons, Allen Adams and Michael Adams (Michelle Robbins), a sister-in-law, Margo Smith, numerous nieces and nephews, and even more numerous great-nieces and nephews.

Ruth died November 23rd, 2020 (at 99 years, 10 months, and one week) in Mount Vernon. A service will be held at a later date at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Seattle, a parish she has been associated with, except for brief periods when living in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Snohomish, since she was eight and where, in the mid sixties she was appointed its first woman senior warden.