{"id":138892,"date":"2021-01-07T17:26:37","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T22:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=138892"},"modified":"2021-01-07T17:26:41","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T22:26:41","slug":"donna-rae-thomas-myers-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/01\/07\/donna-rae-thomas-myers-adams\/","title":{"rendered":"Donna Rae (Thomas) Myers Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Donna Rae (Thomas) Myers Adams, 97, of Grover Hill, passed away Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the Gardens of Paulding.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"395\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Donna-Adams-obit-photo-1-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-138910\"\/><figcaption>Donna Rae Myers Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>She was born November 12, 1923, in Allen County, the daughter of William and Leona (McClure) Thomas.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Survivors include her daughters, Claudia (Myers) Elliott (Gary) of Grover Hill and Tina (Adams) Sheely (Kevin) of rural Spencerville, Indiana; seven grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-granddaughter.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preceding her in death was her husband, George J. Adams in 1994; four siblings, Olive Scherer, Rheba Miller, Betty Koenig, and William Rex Thomas; a son-in-law, Jon E. Niblick; and two nephews, Garry D and Ricky L. Miller.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna graduated from Grover Hill High School in 1941, where she played basketball and sang in the choir. She was a &#8220;Rosie the Riveter&#8221; in Long Beach, California, working for the Douglas Aircraft Company during World War II. She finished her working career as a cutter-grinder on jet engines at Excello in Lima.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Donna was a member of Zion United Methodist Church in Grover Hill, where she was involved with the food pantry. She enjoyed her grandchildren&#8217;s sporting and music events and loved traveling with the YWCA. She was an excellent seamstress, loved music, reading, word finds, and cheering for the Ohio State Buckeyes and Wayne Trace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, January 10, in Middle Creek Cemetery in Grover Hill, with Pastor Michael Waldron officiating.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Preferred memorials: Grover Hill Volunteer Fire Department or a charity of the donor&#8217;s choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alspach-Gearhart Funeral Home &amp; Crematory in Van Wert is handling the arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Condolences may be expressed at&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alspachgearhart.com\/\">www.alspachgearhart.com<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donna Rae (Thomas) Myers Adams, 97, of Grover Hill, passed away Wednesday, January 6, 2021, at the Gardens of Paulding.&nbsp;&nbsp; She was born November 12, 1923, in Allen County, the daughter of William and Leona (McClure) Thomas.&nbsp;&nbsp; Survivors include her daughters, Claudia (Myers) Elliott (Gary) of Grover Hill and Tina (Adams) Sheely (Kevin) of rural [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obituaries"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 08:20:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138892\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}