Ethel Frances Adams, 90, passed away Friday, August 6, 2021, at the Brookdale Greenwood Village Assisted Living Center, in Greenwood Village, CO.  She was born on November 23, 1930, in El Dorado, Arkansas, to Harvey and Frances DeLong.  She grew up in Kansas City, Missouri.

Ethel married Thomas R. Adams on January 22, 1950.  Tom was a long-time high school teacher, coach and an officer in the Air Force and Air Force Reserves.

Ethel taught life-saving and swimming at the local YWCA and Jewish Community Center. With three children at home, she went back to school at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. Spurred on by her love of geology, astronomy and teaching, she became a middle-school earth-science teacher in Overland Park, KS.

In 1980, Ethel and Tom moved to Colorado and built a log home, and many friendships, near Hesperus. In 1999, they moved to Denver to be near family: Steve, Laurie and Keenan. A few years after Tom's passing in 2004, she moved to Lincoln Meadows, and later, to Brookdale Greenwood Village.

Ethel is remembered with love by her son, Steve Adams, and daughter-in-law, Laurie Adams, both of Denver, daughters Wendy Adams of Tucson, AZ, and Leslie Adams of Bellingham, WA. (son-in-law John Mangan), as well as grandchildren Tiana, Keenan, Christopher, Lucas and Nick, four great-grandchildren, and her sister, Elva June Escola, of Independence, MO.  She is preceded in death by her beloved husband, Tommy, her parents, Frances and Harvey DeLong, and her brother, David DeLong.

She enjoyed being a member of the University Park United Methodist Church, Denver, and U.M. Churches in Marvel, CO and Kansas City, MO. Gifts in her name may be made to University Park United Methodist Church, Health and Healing Ministry.

Graveside services will be on Thursday, August 26, 2021, at 1:00 pm, at Fort Logan National Cemetery, Denver, in Staging Area A.