Extracted from The Caldwell Watchman-Progress (Columbia, LA)
Thursday, January 26, 1978

James L. Adams

Funeral services for James Lionel Adams, 53, of Columbia, were held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Columbia Heights Baptist Church with the Rev. Virgil Wilson officiating.

Burial was in Welcome Home Cemetery at Grayson under the direction of Riser & Son Funeral Home of Columbia.

Mr. Adams died Thursday at his residence after a brief illness.

An employee of the U.S. Postal Service, Mr. Adams was a veteran of World War II and a deacon of the Columbia Heights Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. James Adams of Columbia; one son, Jimmy Dexter Adams of Columbia; one daughter, Mrs. Donna Adams Finley of West Monroe; his father, Thomas Watson Adams of Columbia; one brother, Douglas Adams of West Monroe; one sister, Mrs. Hilda Mae McCarty of Baton Rouge.

Pallbearers were Charles Thompson, Gerald McIlwain, M. D. Feltenberger, Homer Meredith, Bobby Jack Hall and Ned Ryan.

Honorary pallbearers were deacons of the Columbia Heights Baptist Church.