5.3.14.7. Garry Z. Adams (1940-1956)

Garry Zachariah Adams (1940 ~ 1956)

5.3.14.7. Seventh child of Zachariah D. Adams and Margaret S. Elford, William Garry Zachariah Adams, was born May 1, 1940, in Newtonville, Clarke Twp., Durham Co., Ontario.

Garry Z. Adams died December 27, 1956, aged 16 years, nr. Hampton, Darlington Twp., Ontario and is interred at Bowmanville Cemetery.

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Garry Z. Adams

For loved ones and friends this Christmas season has been saddened by the sudden death of Garry Adams, beloved son of Mr. and Mrs. Z. Adams of 36 Liberty St. N., Bowmanville.

Garry died instantly December 27, 1956, following an accident when he was thrown from the car which he was driving and pinned underneath.

He was born at Newtonville on May 1, 1940, and moved to Bowmanville in 1944. He attended Bowmanville Central School and passed his entrance there in June, 1956. Garry had been employed by the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company for the past three months.

Besides his father and mother, he is survived by one sister, Marguerite, (Mrs. Allan Beacock) Nestleton, and seven brothers, Berwin of Oshawa, and Ross, Murray, Wayburn, Samuel, Bryce and Blaine of Bowmanville.

The funeral was largely attended and conducted by Rev. F. Halse, Toronto, minister of Bowmanville Baptist Church and Capt. Bill Brown of the Salvation Army Citadel who offered a deep, consoling prayer and sang the hymn, “Good Morning Up There”, at the Morris Funeral Chapel on Sunday, December 30, 1956, with interment being at Hampton Cemetery.

Among the large number of floral tributes, testifying to the esteem in which the deceased was held, were those of the Bowmanville Baptist Church, The Salvation Army Citadel, The Penecostal Church, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, Bowmanville Foundry, former Centre Street neighbors and Wellington and Liberty Streets neighbors, as well as many remembrances from friends and relatives.

Pallbearers were Kenneth Kilmer, Ernest Roberts, Donald Crossey, Garry Lane, Garnet Wray and Bill Bromell, all chums of the deceased. Bowmanville Statesman, Jan. 10, 1957.