Mrs.
Frances Rix Adams
Submitted by
Beth
Love
Big Spring Daily Herald (Big
Spring, Texas)
December 20, 1955
Mrs. Adams, 90, Dies At C-City COLORADO CITY--
Last rites for Mrs. Frances Rix Adams, 90, will be held here at 3 p.m.
Wednesday in her home at 405 Chestnut Street. Mrs. Adams, who came here
almost 17 years ago when Colorado City was referred to as the "Queen
City" of West Texas, died early Tuesday morning in the Root Memorial
Hospital after a long illness. The Rev. Angus Miller, Sweetwater
Episcopal minister, will officiate, and burial will be in the Colorado
City Cemetery beside the grave of her late husband, Charles M. Adams,
who died July 26, 1940. Mrs. Adams was born Frances Rix in Cedar Creek,
Wisc. on Oct. 31, 1865. She came to Colorado City in 1883 and was
married to Mr. Adams, a pioneer merchant and banker, on April 13, 1887.
While health permitted, Mrs. Adams had been very active in club and
church work. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Byrd A. Buchanan; one
sister, Mrs. H. W. Bauchelet, Hollywood, Calif.; and two granddaughters
and three great-grandchildren. Pallbearers will be W. F. Sweatt, Hubert
Howell, Joe Earnest, Joe H. Smoot, John H. Lupton, and James Lupton.
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