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- Obituary lists him as "Otis Adcox" (1965 newspaper)
Odes Raymond Adcox of Wartburg passed away Tuesday morning at the Chamberlain memorial Hospital in Rockwood following a brief illness. Funeral services will be held today (Thursday) at 2:00 pm from the Schubert Funeral Home Chapel. Mr. Adcox, 59, was a parts clerk at Morgan County Motors in Wartburg. He became ill at his home on the night of Saturday, April 16, and was rushed to the hospital where it was determined he had suffered a heart attack. His wife, the former Ev Summers of Wartburg, is a teacher at the Central Elementary School. The Rev. B.M. Fletcher, partor of the First Baptist Church in Wartburg, where Mr. Adcox attended regularly, will officiate at the funeral service. Interment will be in the Liberty Cemetery. Mr. Adcox also attended Sunday School regularly and had he lived until July of this year he would have attained an eight-year perfect attendance record. Besides his wife he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Helene Taylor of Kingston and Mrs. Jane Castleman of Washington, DC; five grandchildren and a brother, Fred Adcox of Chattanooga. Also surviving is a niece, Mrs. Betty Lloyd of Harriman, who from her ninth birthday until her marriage, made her home with Mr. and Mrs. Adcox. MMr. Adcox was born October 28, 1906 in Coalfield, the son of the late P.H. and Dora Bryant Adcox. His father was for many years a Justice of the Peace for the First District of Morgan County. Before Joining Morgan County Motors Mr. Adcox workeed for a number of years with the AB Long Construction Company of Harriman. He had also worked for McPeters Supermarket and Hardware Company in Wartburg. He had lived in Wartburg since 1930. He was a member of the Harriman Council of the Junior Order United American Mechanics.
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