Vera Mae Hight
b. 3 April 1907, d. 12 April 1995
- Father: John A. Hight b. circa 1881
- Mother: Irene (?) b. circa 1883
- Vera Mae Hight was born on 3 April 1907 in Guthrie, Logan County, Oklahoma Territory.
- She married Arthur Foreman Adams, son of Robert Lee Adams and Ophelia Jane Foreman, on 25 June 1929.
- Arthur Foreman Adams and Vera Mae Hight appeared in the US federal census of 1 April 1930 in Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma, at 1019 South Main Street.
- She was employed by a newspaper as an ad solicitor, according to the 1930 census.
- Vera Mae Hight became a widow at the 12 March 1979 death of her husband Arthur Foreman Adams.
- Vera Mae Hight died on 12 April 1995 at age 88 in Griffin, Spalding County, Georgia.
- She was interred at Mount Moriah Cemetery, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.
- The following appeared on 14 April 1995 in The Kansas City Star: Vera Hight Adams, 88, Griffin, Georgia, died Wednesday, April 12, 1995, at Spalding Regional Hospital, Griffin, Georgia. Funeral services will be 11 a.m. Saturday, April 15, at Mount Moriah and Freeman Chapel; burial in Mount Moriah Cemetery. [:CR] Visitation will be 7-8:30 p.m. Friday, April 14, at the chapel. [:CR] Memorial contributions to the Pachem Program. [:CR] Mrs. Adams was born April 3, 1907, in Guthrie, Indian Territory, Okla. She was a graduate of Ponca City High School and worked for Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and then as secretary to the editor of Ponca City News. She resided in Birmingham for 14 years working as secretary for the City Commissioner, Jimmy Morgan. She was a longtime resident of the Marlborough area, from 1949-August 1994. She was the Past President of the Frisco Railways Sunnyland Club Z, Secretary of the Bar H Boys Ranch at Nevada, Mo., on the board of the Pachem Program and received a Kansas City Public Service Award. Survivors include her son, John Kenneth Adams, Columbia, S. Carol; two daughters, Mary Frances Gish, Griffin, Georgia and Jane Ferril, Sheridan, Wyo; five grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
- Last Edited: 7 Mar 2011