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IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Doris M
Adams

Sep 26, 1919 — Feb 3, 2021

Clifton

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Obituary

Doris M. Adams was born to Mattie (Shuford) Jones and Rosslee Morgan Jones on September 26,1919 in Hickory, N.Carolina. She was the first in her family to graduate high school. Doris came to New Jersey in the late thirties or early forties as a sleep in house maid. While employed Doris met the maid who worked next door, Margaret Newman, aka Aunt Maggie.  Aunt Maggie introduced Doris to her brother, John Wesley Adams. John and Doris were married August 14, 1944 and from this union was born Paula M. Adams, deceased and Sandra L. (Adams) Brown. Also from this union Tyrone (Crosby) Adams was adopted. Tyrone's mother was named Agatha Rebecca Crosby, Doris' first cousin to the family.

Doris always mentioned how she couldn't work in the cotton fields so they put her in the kitchen. As many who knew her Doris was an excellent cook and an even better baker. She often baked and sold her cakes to neighboring friends and family.
Doris was a member of Shiloh AME Zion Baptist Church for over 60 years.
Surviving Mrs. Adams are Sandra Brown, daughter in Clifton, NJ; son,Tyrone Adams in Los Angeles, California and his daughter Yvonne of New Mexico; grandson Milton Brown, III of East Orange, NJ and his 3 children, Lamar Duggar, Milton IV, and Seth Brown, and Grandson Kevin Brown, in Florida  and his 3 children, Ahja Brown in Pennsylvania, Skye Brown of East Orange, and Kevin Jr. of Florida and a host of family member from the Adams, Harley, Jones,Dula, McLeod and McNair families.
Mrs. Adams survived her husband John Wesley Adams, her sister Edith Dula, her daughter Paula Adams, her grand daughter Alvina Brown, her great grand Toni Copeland.
Doris was Nana to her family and family was very important to her.
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Celebration of Life

February
14

Sunday

Nesbitt Funeral Home

175 West Englewood Avenue, Englewood, NJ 07631

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