This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adams, Basinger, Iden, Rosentrater, Harris, Zook, Duewel, Witthuhn, Dunn Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ok.2ADE/1596 Message Board Post: THE SIDNEY ARGUS - HERALD. August 16, 1945. "Tabor. Services Held for Elder O.W. Adams".--Funeral services for Elder O.W. Adams were held Saturday morning at 10:30 o'clock at the Goodwill Tabernacle in Tabor, conducted by Rev. Arthur J. Calhoon. Paul Rosentrater and Mrs. F.E. Harris were in charge of the music. Bearers were Louis J. Duewel, L. J. Reckard, LeRoy Zook, Fred Rosentrater, Henry Witthuhn, Mark Dunn. Service were held at the Christian church at Bigelow, Mo., Saturday afternoon at 3:30, with the Rev. E.E. Roop, pastor of the Nazarene church at Ottawa, Kans., in charge. Interment was in the Mt. Hope cemetery a Mound City, Mo. Oscar Welton, son of John and Amanda Basinger Adams, was born November 14, 1863, near Summit in Calloway county, Mo.; and passed away at Mercy hospital in Council Bluffs, August 7 aged 81 years, 7 months and 23 days. As the fourth member of a family of eight children, he moved with his parents to the rural community near Bigelow, Mo., in 1876. Here he attended school and grew to manhood. He was united in marriage to Sarah Catherine Iden, May 12, 1886. To this union seven children were born, three of whom preceded him in death. Four sons survive: Frank D. and Oscar G., of Santa Barbara, Calif.; Roy P., of Huntington Park, Calif.; and Paul G., of Tabor; also six grandchildren; two great grandchildren; one brother, James P., of Ferndale, Wash.; a number of nieces and nephews, and a host of friends. There developed during his life a lasting fellowship with the founders and workers of the Faith Home at Tabor. Here he was ordained as a minister and Elder by the Hephzibah Faith Missionary association in 1916, and he served this organization in varying capacities as committee member, trustee, pastor and vice-chairman. During the last ten years of his active ministry he was a charter member of the Holt County Holiness association, serving as president and he was at the time of his death president emeritus. He also was allied with similar associations in northeastern Kansas and southeastern Nebraska and southwestern Iowa.