Delores Adams

DELORES PICKETT ADAMS, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE HENRY B. PICKETT, SR AND THE LATE VELMA JONES PICKETT, WAS BORN ON AUGUST 5TH, 1943 IN MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. SHE DEPARTED THIS EARTHLY LIFE ON THURSDAY, APRIL 20, 2023 AT HOME. 

A FUNERAL SERVICE WILL BE HELD ON THURSDAY, APRIL 27, 2023, AT 1:00 PM AT ST. LUKE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH IN MOREHEAD CITY. A VISITATION WILL BE HELD ONE HOUR BEFORE THE SERVICE.

DELORES ATTENDED W.S. KING HIGH SCHOOL IN MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. SHE WORKED AS A SEAMSTRESS AT BLUE BELL SHIRT FACTORY IN MOREHEAD CITY, NORTH CAROLINA. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE W.S. KING ALUMNI CLUB. 

DELORES ACCEPTED JESUS AS HER LORD AND SAVIOR EARLY IN LIFE. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF ST. LUKE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ST. LUKE MISSIONARY CHURCH GOSPEL CHOIR FOR MANY YEARS. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE 6W CLUB THAT SHE HELP FOUNDED MANY YEARS AGO. 

DELORES JOINED HOLY MATRIMONY WITH ROY LEE ADAMS, SR AND WAS MARRIED FOR 62 YEARS. WITH THAT UNION FOUR CHILDREN WERE BORN. THREE DAUGHTERS, EVELINA ROGERS OF NEWPORT, NC, DEBORAH HARRIS OF KANNAPOLIS, NC (CLIFFORD), WANDA WRIGHT OF JACKSONVILLE, NC AND ONE SON, ROY LEE ADAMS, JR. OF NEWPORT, NC. THREE SISTERS PRECEDED IN DEATH, DELLA COLLINS, MARY MURRELL, AND EMMA PICKETT. ONE BROTHER DECEASED IN DEATH, REV. HENRY B. PICKETT, JR. 

ONE SISTER STILL LIVING, MARTHA MILLS, OF CROATAN RIDGE IN NEWPORT, NC. ONE SISTE-IN-LAW, LOUISE PICKETT OF RALEIGH, NC SIX GRANDCHILDREN(TIMOTHY ADAMS, CARESS ADAMS, BRANDON ADAMS, ANDY ADAMS, ROYCE LEE FERGUSON, PRECIOUS FERGUSON, DEVIN JOHNSON), SIX GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND A HOST OF NIECES, NEPHEWS, AND COUSINS. SHE LOVED HER LONG TIME BEST FRIENDS, HANNAH TOOTLE AND MARY LEIGH ADAMS, SISTER-IN-LAW. 

SHE WAS A DEVOTED WIFE, MOTHER, GRANDMOTHER, SISTER, AND FRIEND TO MANY. SHE LOVED PEOPLE AND MAKING ALL FEEL LOVED, SEEN, AND COMFORTABLE.

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Arrangements by Noe-Brooks Funeral Home, Morehead City, NC.

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