Mildred Adams

Benson, NC: Mrs. Mildred Mae Parker Adams, age 83, of 701 Adams Road, passed away Wednesday at the SECU Hospice House in Smithfield. Funeral services will be 2:00PM Sunday at Rose & Graham Funeral Chapel in Benson.  Officiating will be Rev. Glenn Fell.  Burial will follow at Banner Chapel Advent Christian Church Cemetery. Mrs. Adams was born March 29, 1932 in Johnston County to the late Willie Oscar and Nola Belle Capps Parker.  She was preceded in death by daughter, Patricia Ann Clayton and her friend, Jerry R. Johnson, granddaughter, Merritt Leigh Marler Ennis, sisters, Hilda Hailey, Leola McLamb, and Sally Ruth Tew, brothers, Aaron Oscar Parker, O.C. Parker, Norman B. Parker and Ervin Parker.  Mrs. Adams retired from the shirt factory and was a homemaker.     Surviving are her husband of 45 years, Glenn W. Adams; son and daughter-in-law, Jimmy W. & Ruth Marler of Selma, granddaughter, Kimberly Clayton Morris and husband, Richard of Benson, one great-granddaughter, Carlie E. Morris and one great-grandson, Payton Ennis, step-grandchildren, Tyler and Taylor Bailey and Andrew Bailey, sister and brother-in-law, Judy and Raylon Wood of Four Oaks, brothers and sisters-in-law, Chester and Brenda Parker of Four Oaks, and Kenneth and Pat Parker of Benson, sister-in-law, Emma Lou Parker of Four Oaks, brother-in-law, James Hailey of Richmond, VA, special caregivers, Linda Brown and Kathy Jones. The family will receive friends at Rose & Graham Funeral Home in Benson from 6:00PM to 8:00PM  Saturday and other times at the home of Kimberly Clayton Morris, 615 Adams Road, Benson, NC 27504.   Flowers are welcomed; however, memorials may be made to Johnston SECU Hospice House, PO Box 1376, Smithfield, NC 27577.