Graveside services for Joan Adams, 77, of Mabank are scheduled for 11 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 4, 2016 at Shannon Rose Hill Cemetery in Ft. Worth, Texas under the direction of Hannigan Smith Funeral Home.
Ms. Adams passed away on Saturday, Jan. 30, 2016 in Athens, Texas.
Joan Yvonne Cooper Adams was born Aug. 7, 1938 in Ft. Worth, Texas the daughter of Richard Sterling Cooper Jr. and Atha Mozelle Hudson Cooper. She was a Baptist and a member of the Seven Points VFW Lodge. They moved to the lake after retirement and thoroughly loved everything about living on the water. She loved her family and was a great mother, sister and grandmother. Joan will be missed by all she knew and loved.
She is preceded in death by her parents, husbands, Thomas Awtry Sr. and Elmo Adams, a son Timothy Awtry, brothers, Ralph Kyle and Richard Cooper III and her sister Diane Caldwell.
Joan is survived by her son Thomas Awtry Jr. and wife Jane of Mabank; brother Jerry Cooper of Dallas and one granddaughter Lovely Jane Lumacang of Mabank.