Sharon Marie Adams

She was born to Sidney John and Doreen (Quayle) Kruse while Sidney was in the Air Force stationed in England. Following his discharge from the Air Force, Sidney moved his family to the Kansas City Northland.

Sharon graduated from Winnetonka High School in May of 1976.Prior to graduating, Sharon worked at Worlds of Fun where she met her future husband, Ron. After graduation, Sharon attended Central Missouri State University studying Business.

In the summer of 1977, Sharon and Ron wed. Sharon then went to work at United Missouri Bank, just prior to given birth to her first daughter, Amanda, in 1979. In 1982, a second daughter, Jennifer, was born. In the summer of 1982, Ron joined the Army and the family moved to Herlong, California. In 1984, she gave birth to her son, Blake.

The family moved to Frankfurt, Germany in the fall of 1985.Several times, Sharon was able to take the night train to Berlin and shop/visit East Berlin, noting the stark differences between east and west. The family also traveled to Bavaria, Austria, dining in the home where Mozart was born, Switzerland and other countries in Central Europe. The family came back to the U.S. and was stationed at Ft. Leonard Wood, it was there Sharon began volunteering with the Family Support/readiness as Ron was immediately deployed to Panama and onto the Virgin Islands and Honduras. In 1988, the family left active duty and Sharon began volunteering with the Reserve unit Ron was assigned to, running the readiness group. Ron’s civilian job moved him to Wichita where the family followed, and Sharon began working full time at the Command Headquarters as the Director of Family Programs providing training to subordinate family readiness groups. After several years, she took a Regional Manager position at the Reserve Command Headquarters, traveling to Hawaii several times and to American Samoa. While Ron was deployed to Iraq in 2004, Sharon took a position with Fort Leavenworth as a Mobilization and deployment specialist, preparing families as their soldiers left for Iraq or Afghanistan. A new position opened at Fort Leavenworth called the Survivor Outreach Specialist working with the surviving families after their soldier had been killed, she made the job her own helping families work through grief by creating albums and displaying them in the Center of Valor. Sharon was responsible for obtaining a Battlefield Cross for placement in front of the Resiliency Center. In 2013, Sharon retired medically as her illnesses were too overwhelming to continue working. Many thanks go to Johnny Murphy, Lee Ratliff, and Janet Glaser for guiding and mentoring Sharon on the journey and being her friend.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Doreen Kruse.

Sharon is survived by her father, Sidney Kruse, her husband, Ronald Adams both of the home; two daughters, Amanda Sapp and Jennifer Adams, both of Kansas City, Missouri; one son, Blake Adams of Leavenworth, Kansas; two wonderful grandchildren, Jeremiah and Aaron.

Much thanks to the CICU staff at NKC Hospital and the staff at North Care Hospice located within NKC hospital.

A visitation will be from 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM, on Wednesday, September 11, 2024, at White Chapel Funeral Home, 6600 NE Antioch Rd, Gladstone, Missouri, 64119; the funeral service will begin at 2PM, with interment following in the White Chapel Cemetery.