Joann Adams

JoAnn Adams, beloved wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away February 25, 2017. She was born December 13, 1938 to Lucy and Louie Spera in Bingham Canyon, UT. She graduated from Bingham High School and Holy Cross School of Nursing. She married Fred Adams on January 21, 1961 in Canon City, CO while he was in the US Air Force. After returning to the Salt Lake area, they raised three daughters and a son...nurturing us with humor, blunt honesty, and good old Catholic guilt. She supported our interests, made peace among us and held us together as a family.

JoAnn worked as a clinic nurse for Hercules and then at Cottonwood Hospital. Over her 30 years in labor and delivery, she helped thousands of babies into the world, including four of her grandchildren. She cherished her six grandchildren, supporting them at sporting events, artistic performances and doting upon them always. She always said her grandchildren were the cutest AND the smartest. A lifelong Catholic, JoAnn attended mass at St. Joseph the Worker and St. Therese of the Child Jesus parishes.

JoAnn is preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by husband Fred, daughters Shelly (Dennis) Edmonds, Deborah (Jeff) Bennett, Kim Adams, and son Donald Adams; grandchildren Mitch, Jillian and Marcus Edmonds, Matthew and Daniel Bennett, and Jaron Adams; aunts Pearl Parlapiano and Lena (Bob) Hench.

The family wishes to thank the staff of Intermountain Medical Center, 9th floor oncology and the Lodge hospice for their compassion and professionalism.

Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. on Thursday, March 2, 2017 at St. Therese Catholic Church, 624 W. Lennox, Midvale, Utah. Viewings will be held from 6-8 p.m. on Wednesday evening at Goff Mortuary, 8090 S. State Street, Midvale, Utah and from 10-10:30 a.m. with a Rosary at 10:30 a.m., at the church prior to the mass. Interment, Midvale City Cemetery.