© Carnegie Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, April 26, 1950 John K. Adair Rites Were Friday For John K. Adair; Burial at Cement John K. Adair, 62, died at 6 p.m. Wednesday of last week after being in ill health since February when he suffered a heart attack. Services were at 2 p.m. Friday in the Pentecostal Holiness church with Rev. Burt Miller, pastor, and Rev. Charles Abney of Cement officiating. Burial was in the Cement cemetery. Born in Texas Feb. 15, 1888, Adair moved with his parents to eastern Oklahoma in 1889. He came to Caddo county in 1910 and lived on a farm near Cement until 1927 when he moved to Cement. He came to Carnegie in 1930 and has lived in this community since. He was married to Gertrude Posey in 1911. Mrs. Adair died Jan. 15, 1940. He was converted at the age of 29 and united with the Pentecostal Holiness church. His membership was in the church here at the time of his death. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Henry Lawson of this place with whom he had made his home the past six years; two sons, Floyd Adair, Colton, Calif., and Presley Adair, Frederick; his mother-in-law, Mrs. A.H. Posey, Cement. |
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Herald Carnegie, Oklahoma Wednesday, January 17, 1940 Rev Gertrude [Posey] Adair Mrs. Adair, Former Carnegie Pastor, Is Killed In Wreck Services At Frederick And Cement Thurs.; 2 Others Die In Wreck Mrs. J.K. Adair, 46, of Frederick, former pastor of the Pentecostal Holiness church here, died Tuesday of a skull fracture received in an automobile collision near Snyder Monday in which her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lloyd Adair, 22, and Horace Overton, 50, were killed. J.K. Adair, 51, also a former Carnegie resident, is at his home in Frederick suffering from serious head injuries and his son, Lloyd Adair, 23, is in a serious condition in a Frederick hospital. The party was returning to Frederick from Clinton where Mrs. Adair had conducted a funeral Monday. The Adair family lived in Carnegie on two occasions, and Mrs. Adair was in charge of the Holiness church work here for a number of years. They also lived near Mountain View and at Cement. Funeral services for Mrs. J.K. Adair will be held at Frederick at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. Another service will be held at Cement at 2:30 p.m. where burial will be made. Mrs. Lloyd Adair was secretary in the office of the Clinton highschool. She and Mr. Adair were married on Christmas day, 1939, and she had not resigned her position. A number of Carnegie friends will go to Frederick for the final services Thursday evening. |
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