Lucie Anne Barton Adger

1935 - 2016

Lucie Ann Barton Adger passed away Wednesday, March 23, 2016. Memorial service: A private service will be held in Gainesville. Memorials: American Cancer Society, in lieu of flowers. Lucie was born July 10, 1935, in Nocona to Dan and Marie Barton. She took great pride in her heritage of being a fifth-generation Texan. Lucie was a wife, mother, grandmother, poet, artist and dancer, filling up any room she entered. Lucie grew up in Coleman and Gainesville. In 1948 she moved to Snyder, where she graduated from high school. She attended TCU and Texas Tech before she met and married John H. Adger Jr. Together they were dance instructors at Arthur Murray's. They moved to Coshocton, Ohio, and opened a gift shop in restored Roscoe Village. Lucie was active with the Footlight Players Theater as a director, producer, choreographer and actor. In 1981, the family returned to Texas where she became a Realtor and cancer survivor. Survivors: Daughters, Gigi Adger-Haynes and husband, Eric, Adrion Ramsey and husband, James, and Laura Adger-Barton and husband, Robby; grandsons, Jacob, Daniel and Liam; sister, Danna and husband, Dr. Robert Russell, and their children, Robert, Shannon, Tamera and Shawn, their Aunt Lu, a free spirit. She will be sadly missed by all.