Marilyn Jeanne Price Adams

Marilyn Jeanne Price Adams 1926 ~ 2005 Marilyn Price Adams died August 31, 2005, enduring well her battle with cancer. Born August 26, 1926, the youngest child of James Robert and Mabel Alexander Price. She grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. She was educated in Arizona and at the University of Utah where she graduated in 1948 with a B.A. degree in English. She was a member of Chi Omega sorority. She met Beecher D. Adams while attending the "U" and they were married in 1948, and sealed in the Salt Lake Temple. They are the parents of four children, Beecher Dan Adams Jr. (Karen) of Salt Lake City, Christine Holland of Highland, UT, Stephen P. Adams (Shelia) of Layton, UT, and Lisa Bohne (Richard) of Highland, UT. She was a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She served in the Mutual Improvement Association and Young Women for many years, teaching the girls and directing the activities of that organization and as ward and stake Young Women president. She loved girls and loved her association with them through many years, bonding her forever to their friendship. In 1972, she was called to the Young Woman General Board where she served until 1978. In 1982, she was called as a national vice president of Lambda Delta Sigma, the Church sorority, and was an associate member of the Relief Society General board, serving in that capacity until 1990. Marilyn's greatest joy was her family. She has 20 grandchildren, and six great-grandchildren. She was famous among them for her homemade ice cream and chocolate sundae pie, her clever skits and songs that they lovingly performed, her "Grandkid's Days" which she and Beech loved to have, gathering them around for activities of all kinds, and her unyielding testimony of the gospel, and love of her Savior, which she shared with them often. The J.R. Price family held many three day family reunions in Utah, Arizona, and California, and she was very much involved in these which led her to giving many seminars and classes on family reunions. Her hobbies included oil painting, cooking, sewing, creative arts, reading, and writing poetry, songs, skits, and dramas for family and friends. She wrote extensively in her church callings including the words to the primary song, "Hum your Favorite Hymn." She was one of the four writers for the sesquicentennial production of "Zion" held in the Salt Lake Tabernacle. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, Sept. 6th, at 12:00 noon at the Monument Park Stake Center located at 1320 S. Wasatch Boulevard in Salt Lake City. An evening viewing will be held on Monday, Sept. 5th at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary located at 2350 East 1300 South from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. and preceding the funeral service from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Interment and graveside services will be at Larkin Sunset Lawn Mortuary in Salt Lake City.