Feb. 25, 1935 — Aug. 22, 2025

Spencer Decker Adams passed away on Aug. 22, 2025, at the age of 90. He was a loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. Spencer was born on Feb. 25, 1935, to Elizabeth Gertrude Decker Adams and Ancel James Adams in Parowan, Utah.

Spencer described Parowan as a small town where “everybody knew too much about everybody else,” but also as a place with “good people” who “looked after each other.” His family lived on the edge of town, which he thought was “an ideal spot for a boy to grow up in.” This provided him easy access to open fields for hunting, mountain lakes for fishing, and foothills for winter sledding and skiing.

Born as the eighth of ten children in his family, he had five brothers and four sisters. He described some of his older br

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