Dorothy Adams - Murphy

Funeral Services for Dorothy Adams-Murphy, 85, Hobart resident and former Custer County resident will be held 2:00 P.M., Thursday, December 1, 2016, in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel, officiated by Jessie Musick. Burial will conclude in the Arapaho Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. Dorothy Pearl (Wolfe) Adams-Murphy was born July 23, 1931 to Tommy Wolfe and Hattie (Roof) Wolfe in Camargo, OK and passed away Saturday, November 26, 2016 in the Elkview General Hospital in Hobart. Mrs. Adams-Murphy was raised in Coalgate and Camargo, OK where she also attended her first schooling. She moved to Western Oklahoma at an early age where she attended school in Foss, OK. She married Arther Lee Adams on December 23, 1948 in Clinton. The young couple made their first home in Foss where they farmed, chopping and pulling cotton and hauling hay as well as other farming chores. The Adams and their nine children moved to Custer City in 1966 and Mr. Adams preceded her in death in 1970. She worked as a nurse's aide in the Prairie View Manor (Now Grace Living Center). She later married Roland Murphy in 1993 in Clinton. They made their homes in Hydro for a few years and then moved to Muskogee where she lived the next several years. Due to failing health she returned to Western Oklahoma and made her home in Hobart and to be close to family. She has resided in the Nursing Home since 2010. She was a member of the Baptist Church, She loved to play Bingo, liked the outdoors and going for long walks. She was preceded in death by both of her husbands, her parents, three children, Tommy Adams, Geneva Smith and Peggy Clift; two sisters, Floye Reimer and Mary Jane Wolfe, five brothers, Joe Wilson, Jackie Wolfe, John Henry Wolfe, Tommie Wolfe and Leroy Wolfe. She is survived by four daughters, Shirley Wynn, El Reno, Linda Delos, Clinton, Sharon Adams, Cordell and Charlotte Margerum, Hobart; two sons, Arnold Adams, Clinton, Billy Adams, Clinton; five sisters, Peggy McLaughlin, Clinton, Ruby Schoonmaker, Hobart, Bonnie Eddings, Linda Cross and Louise Cross, all of Coalgate, four brothers, Clifford Roof and wife Phyllis, Clinton, David Wolfe and wife, Sharon, of Texas, Willie Wolfe and wife, Ramona, Coalgate, and James Wolfe, Colgate. She is also survived by 29 grandchildren, 88 great-grandchildren and numerous great-great-grandchildren