Charlotte M. "Lottie" (Adams) Worrell (1903 - 1994)

Charlotte M. "Lottie" Adams was born on the November, 23 1903 in West St. Clair Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Daniel P. and Ida Rachel (Hiteshew) Adams. 

Charlotte grew up on a farm with her brother Oscar, who was three years older than her.

Charlotte also had two older half-brothers, William and Howard Adams, who were 25 and 22 years old at the time of her birth, and were more like uncles to her than brothers.

Around 1921, Lottie married Elmer Clay Worrell, a veteran of World War I who was nine years her senior. Clay was born on March 28, 1893 in Osterburg, Bedford County, the son of William and Rebecca Susan (Fetter) Worrell.

Lottie and Clay had the following three children: Helen P. Worrell, Dean D. Worrell, and June (Worrell) Moore.

In 1930, they resied in King Township, Bedford County.

On August 20, 1937 her brother Oscar was killed in a car collision on the Haws Pike near Johnstown, Cambria County. He was only 37.

Less then three months later, her oldest child, Helen, died in the same tragic manner as Oscar. On November 8, 1937, Helen was a junior at Bedford High School, and she and her classmates were on their way from Osterburg to Bedford to see the junior class play. The car she was riding in, driven by a male classmate, collided with a truck on Route 220, eight miles north of Bedford. The driver was attemping to pass a car while driving up a hill and hit head-on with the truck, which was driving in the opposite direction. She and the boy were both rushed to Timmins Hospital and died there on November 9, 1937. She was just 17, and the boy, Robert Kauffman, was 16.

Lottie suffered the premature death of another child when on November 15, 1961 her daughter June died at the age of 36. She was married with a young son.

Her son Dean married and is thought to have had at least one daughter.

Lottie and Clay lived all their lives in Bedford County. He died on April 28, 1979 at Altoona VA Hospital, Altoona, Blair County at age 86. Hiis death ended a marriage of around 58 years.

Lottie died on January 20, 1994.  She was 90. 

They were members of the United Church of Christ in Osterburg.

She and Clay are buried in Osterburg Community Cemetery, Osterburg, Bedford County, PA.