Marilyn Joyce Adams, 17, born and raised in Salt Lake City, UT, died of a sudden cardiac arrest May 3, 1997, while dancing with family and friends at an LDS Institute activity.
"Maril Jo" was born April 17, 1980, to Carl Richard Adams Jr. and Gayle Bashaw Adams. Whether it was riding a public bus home alone early from kindergarten because she was bored or challenging her high school teachers with provocative debates, Marilyn lived each day with energy, intelligence, a wacky sense of humor, love for others, and a growing spirituality.She attended Lowell and Uintah Elementary schools, Clayton Jr. High and was an honors student at East High School, participating in student government and the sophomore basketball team. Marilyn already had her tickets to the Utah Shakespeare Festival and had just auditioned for a local musical. Horseback riding, soccer, traveling stand-by throughout the US and Mexico, singing, current events and history, and Monty Python movies were some of her many interests. She attended LDS Seminary and was an active participant in LDS youth activities. She loved reading the scriptures and attending the Salt Lake LDS Temple.
Marilyn is survived by her father, Carl Richard Adams, Jr. and his wife Judy; and her mother, Gayle Bashaw Adams and her husband Dennis Ison; her much-loved sisters. Margaret (Peter) Adams-Cooley, Marie Adams, and Madeline Adams; her grandmother, Joyce K. Adams (Hazelwood, MO); and her grandparents, Charles and Margaret Bashaw (El Cajon, CA); her great-grandmother, Lillian Shoupe (Sand Springs, OK); many aunts, uncles, cousins; and her rabbit, "Spiny Norman". Preceding Marilyn in death were her sister, Marissa Ruth Adams; her grandfather, Carl Richard Adam Sr.; uncles, James Adams and Michael Forshey; and "Chloe", the family Labrador.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday, May 13, 1997, 12 noon at the Colonial Hills 2nd Ward, 1455 South 1700 East. Friends may call at the Larkin Mortuary, 260 East South Temple, Monday from 6-8 p.m. and at the ward Tuesday from 10:30-11:45 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Marilyn's memory to the horseback riding program of the Utah Girl Scout Council, 445 East 4500 South, Murray UT 84107.
"And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and death shall be no more, nor mourning, nor crying, nor sorrow shall be any more . . Rev. 2:4."
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