Jonesboro- June Arlene Clark Adams, passed away Wednesday, February 9, 2022.

She was born on the farm at Otwell, September 7, 1932 to parents Herbert and Ruth Arlene Clark, and she led an extraordinary life. She loved growing up on the farm. She had many pets, and she loved spending time with her father and grandfather as they worked to produce rice and soybeans. In her high school years, she participated in many activities at Valley View High School. She was the Salutatorian of her graduating class in 1950. She was voted Most Beautiful and Most Likely to Succeed. She chose a career, instead of going to college, she began working at Production Credit Association, which is now Farm Credit Services. She met the love of her life and they were married in 1952, just before he left to fight for the Army in the Korean War.

In her early years she was a member of the Valley View Home Extension Club. When her children entered school she worked the local Jonesboro Public School PTA, and she served in several offices on the Arkansas State PTA. She was one of the first "Pink Ladies", the volunteer organization of women, at the Methodist Hospital in Jonesboro.

She had a beautiful voice and she sang at many weddings, funerals, and events throughout Northeast Arkansas. She loved singing in her church choir and performing solos in many cantatas and songs. She loved hosting showers and events at her home and with friends and relatives, and she loved attending all of her children and grand children's events. Her family referred to her as the person who had attended more fine arts events, than any person on the planet. She loved choir and band concerts, ballets, musicals, plays, operas, recitals, and pageants, and she was always the last one applauding.

After her grand-daughters were born she retired from Farm Credit Services after 48 years working as an administrative assistant and loan officer. She enjoyed every moment she spent with her precious babies. She volunteered at Fox Meadow Elementary and was awarded twice the "Volunteer of the Year". She obtained her Certificate of Interior Design from the Atlanta School of Design, and after retirement, she and her daughter opened "Passing Fancies Interior Design". She enjoyed working with clients and meeting new people.

She was a member of the Otwell Christian Church where she sang in the choir, through the years was the worship leader, taught VBS, Sunday School, worked with youth groups, worked at church camp, served as the church treasurer, was a faithful member of the Christian Women's Fellowship, and was a "spiritual light" to everyone who knew her. She enjoyed traveling anywhere with her family. She made many trips to California, Florida, New York, Washington D.C., and camped many times at "Gunner's Pool" outside of Mountain View. She enjoyed interior designing, sewing, gardening, painting, shopping, and spending time with friends and family.

She was proceeded in death by her husband of 69 years, Billy Joe Adams, and by her parents, Herbert and Ruth Roberson Clark.

She leaves behind her children, Jonathan, and wife Kim and Jo and husband Grant; her special grandchildren, Olivia Ann Adams Sanders and husband Cody and Madeline Adams and several nieces and nephews, cousins and many friends.

A celebration of her life will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, February 12, 2022 at Gregg-Langford Bookout Funeral Home with Jim Roberts and Gerald Griffin officiating. Interment will follow at Jonesboro Memorial Park Cemetery.

The family will receive friends from 9:30 until time of service Saturday at the funeral home.

Honored to serve as pallbearers are Chad Puckett, Danny Lynn Blalock, John Lutrell, John Keller, Kelsey Keller and Cody Sanders and as honorary pallbearers,  Otwell Christian Women's Fellowship, Hazel Keller, Neil and Mary Gaye Puckett and Billy Wilkins.

In lieu of flowers she ask that donations be made to the NEA Humane Society or St. Jude's Children's Hospital.