Shara L Adams

It is with regret and sadness that the family of Shara L. Adams, 79, Bismarck, announces her death. She died the evening of Friday, February 3, 2012, at her residence in Bismarck, ND. A memorial service will be held at 11:00 am Friday, February 10, at Parkway Funeral Service, 2330 Tyler Parkway, Bismarck. Burial will be in Mandan Union Cemetery, Mandan. Shara was born in Mandan, ND, on July 12, 1932, to Sherman and Pat Alta Melarvie. She was a 1950 graduate of Bismarck High School and completed registered nurses training through St. Alexius Hospital. Shara was united in marriage to Edward L. Adams III in April of 1957. To this union four children were born. Shara and Ed spent a great majority of their married life in Grand Forks, ND, where their children were raised and educated. Ed was a former partner in the architectural firm of Wells, Dembrook, and Adams. Shara owned and operated a catering business in Grand Forks, White Glove Catering, with two other partners. Shara relocated to Bismarck in 1986, where she resided for the last 26 years. Shara was a very talented individual with hobbies of sewing, quilting, and cooking. She also undertook several different forms of artistic endeavors. She was a very accomplished painter and artist using many different medias to express her artistic talents. She was very proud of the denim quilts she made for her children and grandchildren, as well as trying to get her family together to enjoy her various culinary experiments. Shara also enjoyed working as a Foster Grandparent through the Bismarck Public Schools, specifically at Dorothy Moses Elementary. She was proud of the fact that she was able to help children learn to read and thoroughly enjoyed her time with her foster grandkids! She also believed that these "grandchildren" and her "family" at Dorothy Moses helped her as much as she helped them, even through the last week of her life. Shara is survived by her children: Edward L. Adams IV MD Nancy, Grand Forks, and their children, EJ Lyndsie Adams, Eden Prairie, MN, and Casey Adams, Grand Forks; Erin Dick Gibb, Dallas City, IL, and their children, Brittany Warner and her children, Johnny and Jayden, and Andrea Johnson PJ and their children, Davion and Denzel, all of Schaumberg, IL; Jon S. Mary Adams and their children, Dalton and Ian, Bismarck; and Allison Adams and her children, Ben and Jacob Harms, Grand Forks, ND. Shara is also survived by her siblings, Annabelle Bourgois, rural Baldwin, ND, Joel Arlene Melarvie, Mandan, and Richard Kathy Melarvie, Mankato, MN; and numerous nieces and nephews in ND, MN, SD, WI, IA and Korea. Shara was preceded in death by parents, Pat and Sherman Melarvie; brother-in-law, Paul Bourgois; and her cousins, Marilyn Jacobson and Darlene Hatzenbihler.

Shara L Adams

July 12, 1932 - February 3, 2012