Virginia Adams Obituary

Virginia “Ginny” L. Adams, age 90, of Stowell, PA, passed away on Friday evening, December 19, 2025 at her son’s, Jeff, home.

She was born on November 28, 1935. She spent her life around Farr Hollow and Jenningsville before marrying the love her life Marvin Lee Adams that she met at the Laceyville High School where she graduated from. The were married on June 20, 1953. They settled in Stowell and together owned and operated the Stowell Dairy Farm for many years.

After retiring from dairy farming, Ginny worked for the Green Thumb in Laceyville, PA and worked with Fran Strectch at a day care inside the Wyalusing Presbyterian Church. She was also a substitute mail carrier for the Wyalusing and Sugar Run Post Offices.

Ginny was a member of the Hollenback and Jenningsville United Methodist Churches and the United Methodist Women. She loved her pets and everyone else’s. She took great pleasure in square dancing, gardening, mowing lawn, painting, and visiting with family and friends. She always enjoyed playing with her three great-grandchildren. Marv and her would often spend time at their fishing camp in Canada. Ginny loved feeding the deer and watching for them all day.

After her husband passed on July 12, 2022, she moved in with her son Jeff and his wife Laura and they were caregivers until her passing.

Ginny is survived by her children, Jeff Adams (Laura) of Stowell, PA and Debra Adams (Tina Shupp) of Stowell, PA; her grandchildren, Maria Alverez and Nathan Adams (Terrah); her great-grandchildren, Sophia Alvarez and Lennon and Oliver Adams; her sisters/brothers-in-law, Joyce Adams Volutza, Karen Gates, Martha “Mick” Adams, and Gale and Melanie Adams; as well as several nieces, nephews, and cousins.

Besides her husband, Marvin Lee Adams, she was preceded in death by her grandparents, Charles and Grace Goodwin; her uncles and aunts, Warren and Bernice Goodwin, Robert and Rachel Goodwin, and Francis Goodwin; her father/mother-in-law, Elmer and Ethel Adams; and brothers/sisters-in-law, Melvin Adams, Kenny Adams, Kirk and Kathy Adams, Allen Adams, Tony and Cindy Adams, and Frank “Stub” Gates.

My farm to me is not just land, it was not just where I worked, my farm is a haven. As I’ve aged now all day I hear my children shout and play, I hear the tractor running, I hear the animals calling its nothing less than lovely, it’s where I want to be. Don’t shed tears, I’ve lived and loved fully, I’m in a place of comfort with the love of my life. Mother…loving, patient, kind, and true. No other friend in all the world will take the place of you. Full of loving kindness you’ve fought for all of us one way or another. You’ll be in our hearts forever.

A Celebration of Life will be held will be held when the weather is nicer during the summer. Arrangements are entrusted with the Sheldon Funeral Home, 155 Church St., Wyalusing, PA. Online condolences may be made at www.SheldonFuneralHomes.com.

In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made in Ginny’s name to the Jenningsville United Methodist Church, c/o Cindy Robinson, 7056 SR 3001, Mehoopany, PA 18629.