Norma Jean Adams

A funeral service for Norma Adams will be held Monday, March 31, 2025, at 12:00 PM at Robert Barham Family Funeral Home. Burial to follow at Meridian Memorial Park. Robert Barham Family Funeral Home is honored to be entrusted with arrangements.

Norma Adams, age 88, from Meridian, MS passed away peacefully where she lived with her daughter and son-in-law in Sparta, TN on March 25, 2025.

She was born on June 17, 1936, to her parents Otis Murphy and Ina Mae Hales. Norma was the third youngest of ten children (5 brothers and 5 sisters). Her dad died at a young age (47) leaving her mom to raise the children. All the children learned to work at a young age picking cotton in the fields. Often when the older children got married they would take an older sibling to live with them. She loved her siblings dearly. Each one of them had a special place in her heart. She especially enjoyed making the 5 gallons of banana pudding for the brothers at the annual reunion.

Norma suffered many years with the terrible disease Alzheimer's. Two of her older sisters also died of this dreadful disease. She is a member of Madison Champus Seventh Day Adventist Church, Madison, TN.

In May of 1954, Norma married Charles "Bud" Adams. She had known him since childhood. At the time of Charles passing they had been married 49 years with three children. She found joy in her early years cooking and baking, making ceramics, gardening, working in the yard, spending time with grandkids and in the latter years reading, watching animal shows on television, working sudoku and letter books.

She is survived by her daughter, Diane Arledge (Steve) of Sparta, TN; great-grandson, Kyle Adams (Amanda) of Saucier, MS; great-great-granddaughters, Kyleigh Adams, Paisley Garcia, Hannah Miller of Saucier, MS; sister, Faye Gibson of Goodlettsville, TN; a host of numerous nieces, nephews, extended family and friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Charles D. Adams, Sr.; son, Donald Adams; daughter, Linda Faye Adams; grandson, Robbie Adams; parents, Otis Murphy and Ina Mae Hales.

Online condolences may be expressed by at robertbarhamffh.com.

Visitation will be held Monday, March 31, 2025, from 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM at the funeral home prior to the service in the chapel.