Marsha Lynn Adams

Graveside memorial services for Marsha Adams will be on Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 10:00 am. At Hardtner Cemetery. Marsha Lynn, daughter of the late Byron and Doris Eva (Courson) McKitrick, was born October 6, 1954, at Kiowa, Kansas, and passed away February 3, 2025, at Alva, at the age of 70 years, 3 months, and 28 days. Marsha was raised in Kiowa with her brothers and sisters. She attended Kiowa schools until the age of 15 when she quit school with her parents permission. She was united in marriage to Vernon Smith on December 14, 1969. For 3 years he built grain elevators and they traveled twice to Texas, once to Colorado, twice to Nebraska, twice back to Kansas, and twice to Arkansas where he was killed in an automobile accident when Marsha was only 18 years old. When she was 16, they were blessed with a daughter, Charlotte Ann Smith. She was less than 2 years old when her father was taken from her. She returned to Kiowa and moved to Alva in the early 1970's where she met and married Billy Max Ross. They divorced in 1984. After living in Alva several years she joined the Bible Baptist Church. She later met Ed Adams through bowling and bartending at the Alva Moose Lodge. They had their first date in December of 1989 and were together until her passing. They married January 19, 1991, and recently celebrated their 34th Anniversary with cupcakes for the residents and staff at Beadles New Beginnings. Besides her parents, Byron and Doris, she was preceded in death by her brother, Ronald McKitrick; her sisters, Lorraine Warfield, Deloris Knabe, Debra Nealey, and Jean Nusser. Marsha is survived by her husband, Ed Adams of Alva; her daughter, Charlotte Smith of Los Angeles, California; her stepson, Rick Adams of Blackwell; her grandchildren, Marcus Smith and wife, Christina, of Gardner, Kansas, Nakia Smith and Darian Smith, both of Tulsa; step grandsons, Austin Adams and Casey Adams, both of Sweden; two great grandchildren, Zillie and Todan Smith of Gardner, Kansas; her brother, Byron McKitrick of New Hampshire; her sister, Karen Hada and husband, Jerry, of Alva; her brothers-in-law, Jim and Mary Jane Adams of Manhattan, Kansas, and John and Charlene Adams of Hardtner, Kansas; many nieces and nephews, other relatives and many friends. Memorial contributions may be made through the funeral home to the Bible Baptist Church or the Women of the Moose.

Marsha Lynn Adams

October 6, 1954 - February 3, 2025