This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Adams, Koch, Cain, Torwegge, Bourbon, Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lNB.2ACI/4322 Message Board Post: Jerry Lee Adams of Route 2, Cadet, Missouri., departed this life on Wednesday, June 13, 1984, at his residence at the age of thirty-six years, ten months, and twelve days. He was born July 31, 1947 in Washington County, Missouri, a son of Rose Ann Cain Adams Torwegge and the late Henry Sylvester Adams. On August 29, 1970, in the St. Joachim's Catholic Church, Old Mines, he was united in marriage to the former Phyllis Koch and four children were born to this union. Jerry was employed as a craftsman for Buckman Laboratories, Inc. for almost eleven years. He was a Fourth Degree member of the Knight's of Columbus, Washington County Council No. 5936, Old Mines. Jerry leaves to survive his loving and devoted wife, Phyllis Adams of Route 2, Cadet; one daughter, L?A in the family home; three sons, Jerry Lee, Jr., John Chris and Jason all of the famly home; his parents, Rose Ann and Harry Torwegge of Star Route 287, Potosi; two sisters, Patsy (Mrs. Roger Bourbon) of Star Route, Blackwell and Betty Jean Adams, of Star Route 287, Potosi; his grandmother, Ann Cain of Mineral Point; his mother-in-law, Rose Ann Koch of Route 2, Cadet; and a host other relatives and friends who will sadly miss him. Jerry was preceded in death by his father and one brother, Johnny Adams. Prayer services were conducted Friday, June 15, 1984 at 7 p.m. at Gum and Son Chapel, Potosi, led by Fr. Robert Johnston and Fr. Robert Rosebrough. The Knights of Columbus, in memory of their departed brother, presented a posting of the guards from 7 until 9 p.m. on Friday. The Funeral Mass was conducted Saturday, June 16, 1984, 10 a.m. at St. Joachim's Church with Fr. Robert Johnston the celebrant. Interment was in the St. Joachim's Cemetery under the direction of the Gum and Son Funeral Home, Potosi, Missouri. Serving as pallbearers were Harold, Joseph, Bernard, Michael, Joseph, John and Paul Koch and Earl Sansoucie (Copied from a book of newspaper obits of Washington County at Washington County Library, Independent Journal, parts were smeared and it was hard to read, not for sure of Jerry's daughter's name , possibly LeA)