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Obituary- Adair, Muriel

Mrs. Muriel Adair
VALLEY FALLS — Services will be at l0:30 a.m. Monday at Nellis-Hagge Funeral Home here for Mrs. Muriel Adair, 81. St. Louis. Mo., formerly of Valley Falls. She died Thursday, Oct. 1. 1987, at her home.
Mrs. Adair was a former nurses' aide in the Stark Hospital Children s Ward at San Diego. Calif.
She was born July 6. 1906. in the Swabville community northwest of Valley Falls, the daughter of William Isaac and Nancy Cather¬ine Lyons Ferrell. She grew up in the Swab¬ville community and attended Swabville school. She also attended Valley Falls High School. She had lived in Topeka and Norton before she moved to San Diego in 1955. She moved to St. Louis about a year ago.
Mrs. Adair was a member of Calvary Southern Baptist Church in San Diego and Helena Chapter No. 210 of the Order of Eastern Star at Topeka
She was married to Orhum R. Adair July 26, 1925, at Oskaloosa. He died in 1955. She also was preceded in death by an infant daughter, Daisey Mae Adair, in 1926 and two sons. Orhum Lee Adair in July 1980 and Lorman D. Adair in April 1981.
Survivors include a son, Myerle Willis Adair, Chesterfield, Mo.; three sisters, Mrs. Ceola Cain and Mrs. Gladys Deckard, both of Valley Falls, and Mrs. Almira Swisher, Delia; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Valley Falls Cemetery. Mrs. Adair will lie in state after noon tomorrow at the funeral home where the family will receive friends from 7 until 8 p.m. tomorrow. Memorial contributions may be made to Christian Family Services in St. Louis and left at the funeral home.