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Billy Bob Adams
Bishop Funeral Home
September 5, 2021
Submitted by: Carol Spear Rice
Billy Bob Adams, 78, of McAlester, died Monday, April 3, 2006, at McAlester Regional Health Center. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 tonight at Bishop Funeral Home. Celebration service will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Grand Avenue United Methodist Church with Dr. David Cressman officiating. A private family graveside service was previously held at Memory Gardens Cemetery with military honors. Arrangements are under the direction of Bishop Funeral Service of McAlester. Born Jan. 16, 1928, in McAlester, he was the son of Emit Leon and Beulah Mae McClendon Adams. He attended McAlester High School and entered the United States Navy in August 1945 during World War II. During his military service he received his high school G.E.D. and was honorably discharged in July 1946 as a seaman 2nd class. After his military service he returned to McAlester and worked as a firefighter for the McAlester Fire Department until he retired in 1955. He then moved to southern California where he met and married Judith Kruse on June 8, 1957, and he worked as a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service. While in California he was also an instructor of hunter safety courses. Retiring after 20 years of service, he and his wife moved back to McAlester in 1993 from Oroville, Calif. He was an avid hunter and fisherman, a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans and was also a longtime member of the Grand Avenue United Methodist Church. Survivors include his wife, Judith Adams, of the home; two daughters and sons-in-law, Terri and Bill Morse, Tucson, Ariz., and Marie and Dwayne Branham, Priest River, Idaho; a brother, Elmer Adams, Fort Mojave, Calif. Also, a sister, JoAnn Benson, of McAlester, and seven grandchildren, Jessica, Billy, Timothy, John and Katelyn Morse, Tucson, Ariz., and Debra and Rebecca Branham, Priest River, Idaho. Pallbearers will be Jerry Barlow Jr., Bill Scherman, Adam Hancock, Jason Clifton, Martin Adams and Greg Adams. Honorary pallbearers will be Eldon Haas, Duane Frye, and members of the Open Door Sunday school class of Grand Avenue United Methodist Church. He was preceded in death by his parents, Emit and Beulah Adams; a brother, John Adams, and two sisters, Juanita Braley and Mildred Haas.
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