Deborah Kay Adams

After battling cancer for nearly a decade, Deborah Adams passed away on September 28, 2011. Debby was born on October 18, 1950 in Wheeling, West Virginia. She later moved to Arizona with her mother where she graduated from Paradise Valley High School in 1968 and met her husband of 21 years, Wendell "Skip" Adams.

Debby moved to Utah in 1978 where she raised her six children and one foster child. She graduated from Utah College of Massage Therapy in 1993 and practiced for 18 years, building a wonderful clientele that consisted of people she considered friends. Debby served faithfully in numerous church callings for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and devoted countless hours to researching and teaching genealogy. All who knew Debby called her ''Mom''; she was always quick to love and nurture those who entered her home. Debby loved working in the garden; planting and watching her flowers grow. She devoted her life to service and offered help whenever she saw someone in need. Her true joy in life were her children and her 14 grandchildren.

She is survived by her children: Heidi (Jeff) Ulrich, Misty (Preston) Anderson, Jared (Brittany) Adams, Tabby (Rick) Payne, Skip (Emma) Adams, and Jesse (Kara) Adams; 14 grandchildren; brother Dan (Carolyn) Grammer and family; her step-mother Flo Grammer and other extended family members, including Angelita Benally

She is preceded in death by her father Henry Joseph Grammer Jr., her mother and step-father Eileen Marie and John Theodore Beaver.

Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 11 a.m. at the Washington Terrace 7th Ward, 4900 South 300 West. Friends may visit family on Tuesday from 6 to 8 p.m. at Lindquist''s Ogden Mortuary, 3408 Washington Blvd. and Wednesday from 9:45 to 10:45 a.m. at the church. Interment, Lindquist''s Washington Heights Memorial Park, 4500 Washington Blvd.