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Collection: FND001 - SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Series: Tribute
Folder: DIG
Item: 01549
Title: Edward L. Adams III
Date: 1930 - 2008
Creator:
Inscription/Marks: 8/4/1930
Summary: It is with great sadness that the family of Edward L. Adams III announces his death on December 25, 2008. Services were held at Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck, ND, with Rev. John Thoraldson officiating. Burial was at Fairview Cemetery, Bismarck. Ed was born August 4, 1930, at Bismarck, ND to Edward L. Adams II and Jordis Rafteseth Adams. Edward L. Adams II died in July of 1939 and Jordis in May of 1989. Ed was raised and educated in Bismarck, ND, graduating from Bismarck High in 1948. Ed attended Bismarck State College, taking undergraduate courses and graduated from North Dakota State University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, with a Bachelors Degree in Architectual Engineering. After he was honorably discharged from the United States Army, Ed worked with the Ritterbush Architectural Firm in Bismarck. Ed was united in marriage to Shara Melarvie in April of 1957. Ed and Shara ventured to Des Moines, IA, for a very short period and, in 1962, moved to Grand Forks, ND. In Grand Forks, Ed was a partner in the architectural firm of Wells, Denbrook and Adams. Ed was active in the community of Grand Forks and was a strong supporter of the University of ND. Ed was very involved in the upbringing of his children, including following their sporting careers & activities, and those of his grandchildren. Ed was a past president and member of Sertoma, as well as a past president of the American Institute of Architects, for a region that included the tri-state area of North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana. Ed left Grand Forks in 1980 and went to work for Henry J Kaiser Engineering and worked at the coal gasification plant in Beulah, ND, for 7 years. In 1987, Ed transferred with Kaiser Engineering to the National Nuclear Laboratory in Los Alamos, NM. Ed was very fond of the New Mexico area and the wide variety of people he met in his travels, while working for Kaiser Engineering. After 6 years in Los Alamos, Ed transferred to the Hanford Nuclear Site in the Tri-Cities area of Richland, Pasco & Kennewick, WA. Ed retired and moved back to Grand Forks to be near three of his four children in 2001. Ed moved to Bismarck in August of 2008 and was a resident of the Waterford retirement community at the time of his death. Even though Ed was a master of design, loved to draw and paint and had quite an illustrious career, he was unable to correct the human design flaws, which ended his life; Alzheimer’s with dementia and lung cancer. Ed was surrounded by his sons; their spouses; and two grandsons, Dalton and Ian, at the time of his passing. Edward L. Adams, III, is survived by his children (and spouses), grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, which include, son, Edward L. (Nancy) Adams IV, MD, of Grand Forks, and family, EJ (Edward L.) Adams V, and fiancé, Lyndsie Deutz, of Denver, CO, and Casey Adams of Grand Forks; son, Jon S. (Mary) Adams, and family, Dalton Adams (friend Maggie Carlson), and Ian Adams of Bismarck; daughter, Erin (Dick) Gibb, Dallas City, IL, and family, Brittany Johnson Warner, Johnny and Jayden Warner of Florida and Andrea Johnson (PJ) and unborn son, Davion, of Schaumburg IL; and daughter, Allison Adams, and family, Benjamin Harms and Kouba (Jacob) Harms of Grand Forks. Those predeceased are Edwards’s parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, as well as many friends, business associates and employees.
Red ID: FND_I_61911 Image ID: 513281 Image Notes: FND001 01549

Collection: FND001 Digitized Images from Collection
Title: SHSND Foundation - North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program
Date: -

Summary: The North Dakota Heritage Family Memorial Program is sponsored by the North Dakota Funeral Directors Association. The life stories of deceased North Dakotans are featured in an archvied collection. Current partners in the project are Eastgate Funeral & Cremation Services, Bismarck Evans Funeral Homes, Carrington and New Rockford Everson-Coughlin Funeral Home, Williston Fulkerson Funeral Home, Tioga Fulkerson Funeral Home, Watford City Fulkerson Stevenson Funeral Home, Williston Nero Funeral Home, Bottineau Parkway Funeral Service, Bismarck Springan Stevenson Funeral Home, Stanley Stevenson Funeral Home, Dickinson These funeral homes provide recent obituaries to the Foundation, where staff and volunteers format, edit and archive each memorial. The memorials are posted, and copies are sent to the family for their input and approval. The listing currently features more than 13,000 memorials, and is constantly updated as new memorials and histories are received.

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