Sarah Lynn Weldon Adams

Sarah Lynn Weldon Adams was born May 11, 1965, in Meridan, Mississippi, to James Weldon, Jr. and Lillie Orean Jack Grady-Weldon. She was the 13th of fifteen siblings. She moved to Hazlehurst in 1972 with her family. She was a 1985 Telfair County High School Graduate in McRae, GA. She was employed by Absolute Care in Arkansas as a Certified Nursing Assistant for many years.

She loved going to church and serving God. Her first church membership was the Macedonia Church of God in Christ in Lumber City. She later joined the Full Gospel Church of God in Lumber City, GA. Her final church membership was the

Rehoboth Church of God in Christ in Wilson, Arkansas, where she was a Missionary and the Director of Food Pantry Outreach Ministry. She loved to cook for the community and needy families. She enjoyed fishing and crocheting. And she enjoyed spending time with family and friends. She was a cook for the Mississippi County Sheriff Department in Arkansas.

She was preceded in death by her mother Lillie Orean Jack Grady-Weldon; her father James Weldon, Jr.; grandfather, Johnnie B. Jack; grandmother, Rose Mae Holmes Jack; sisters, Dorothy Sumlin and Shirley Harris; brothers: Champ, James Edward, Ecclesiastes Grady, Sammie Earl Ruffin, and Larry Grady; nephews, Malkeyto Hall, Gabriel Hall, and Jadian Bouie; one uncle, Otis Jack and wife Fannie Ruth; aunts, Ethel Boose and Bernice Jack.

She leaves to cherish her memories: her spouse, Jessie Lee Adams of Wilson, Arkansas; seven siblings and their spouses, John Grady of Hazlehurst, GA, Hazel (Sammy) Balcom and Lillie Grady Hall both of Atlanta, GA, Janice (Dean)

Conaway of Lumber City, GA, Arlene (Willie) Hunt of Hazlehurst, GA, Beverly (Jamie) of Dalmida, FL; Two aunts, Gloria Williams of Hazlehurst, GA and Susan Jackson of Arizona; seventeen nieces and nephews, thirty-seven great nieces and

nephews, a great host of other relatives and friends.