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- Superior Express (Superior, NE), Thursday, May 11, 1972; pg. 7
Funeral services were held at the Reformed Presbyterian Church in Superior Monday for Mrs. Belle Adams, a former Beulah pastor's wife. Mrs. Adams died at Laveen, Ariz., on May 4.
Mary Belle Edgar Adams, daughter of John and Matilda Edgar, was born in Sylvania, Mo., on Oct.21, 1891.
She moved with her parents to Sterling, Kan., when she was four years of age. She was educated in the public schools of Sterling and graduated from Cooper College in 1941. She taught school for three years and was married on July 17, 1917, to Richard Cameron Adams. They went as missionaries to South China that fall and were there for seven years.
After a year's furlough in 1924, they did not return because of unsettled conditions in South China. They spent one year in Stafford, Kan., and then served at the Indian Mission near Apache, Okla., until 1942.
They moved to Nuckolls County where her husband was pastor of the Beulah Congregation until his death in 1948.
In the fall of that year she moved to eastern Kentucky where she served as a Bible teacher in Elliott and Morgan Counties until her retirement in 1965. She has since resided with her daughter, Mrs. Elmer Graham, in Arizona and was an active member of the Phoenix congregation until the time of her death.
She is survived by the following children: Roy of Darlington, PA., Mrs. Elmer Graham (Lois) of Laveen, Ariz., Mrs. John McMillan (Marion) of Walden, N.Y., Bruce O. Warren, Mich., and Mrs. Gene Spear (Ruth) of Kobe, Japan; 18 grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.
Officiating at the service was Pastor R. W. Caskey.
Interment was in the Beulah Cemetery.
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- The friends of Belle Edgar and Rich Adams will be interested to know of the announcement made March 23 at the Edgar home, that Belle Edgar, ’14, and Rich Adams ’13 have recently been appointed missionaries to China, and will sail about September first.
Cooper Courier, Sterling, Kansas. Tuesday, 27 March 1917.
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- An engagement that will be of interest to a large circle of friends of the young couple was announced last Friday evening, to a company of the young lady friends of Miss Belle Edgar, who informed her friends of her coming marriage to Richard C. Adams who is now a student in the White Bible school in New York City completing his preparations to leave in the fall as a missionary to China. The announcement of the coming nuptials was made at a delightful little affair which was given Friday evening by Miss Edgar at her home. An interesting feature of the affair was the fact that the announcement of her engagement was made on the thirty-fifth anniversary of the marriage of her parents and the affair was also a celebration of that event. The announcement was made in a unique manner. Printed slips were passed bearing two statements, both of which were badly ‘pied.” When the jumbled letter were property arranged the first was found to be a statement of the anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar and the second told of the coming wedding. When the coming event was know the bride-to-be was showered with good wishes by the guests. During the evening a two course lunch was served and later the guest inspected the pretty new Edgar home from garret to cellar. The date of the coming wedding was not announced, but it will be an event of the coming summer and the couple will leave the first of September to take up their work in China. Miss Edgar is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Edgar of this city and Mr. Adams is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Adams, also of Sterling. Both are graduates of Cooper college and have a large circle of friends in Sterling and community to whom the announcement of the coming nuptials will be of much interest. After finishing his course at Cooper, Mr. Adams took a course in the Reformed Presbyterian Seminary, at Pittsburgh, Pa., and became a licensed minister. After finished his course there he went to New York to make special preparation for his missionary work.
The Sterling Kansas Bulletin, Sterling, Kansas. Thursday, 29 March 1917.
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- Miss Mary Adams, who has been laboring in China since the fall of 1912, leaving home Oct. 28, of that year and Rev. Richard C. Adams and Belle Edgar Adams, his wife, who sailed from the home land Aug. 30, 1917, to take up the work in China.
The Sterling Kansas Bulletin, Sterling, Kansas. Thursday, 29 November 1917.
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