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Adelaide Juarros Kemm, 87, a resident of Albuquerque, passed away on Tuesday, December 9, 2008. Adelaide was born September 18, 1921 the daughter of Juan Juarros and Adelina Alcon-Buck Arrivas on a homestead ranch in rural Mora County, New Mexico. During her youth on the ranch, Adelaide talked about jumping fences riding bareback, which alarmed the ranch hands. With three older sisters, she was delegated to operating the cream separator churning butter and making soap, never becoming comfortable in the kitchen. She made up for this with her green thumb. We joked that she could stick a two by four in the ground and a tree would grow out of it. She loved gardening and always had beautiful flowers. Married during World War II, Adelaide accompanied her husband to his duty stations with the Army Air Corps and the Air Force (which was formed on her birthday in 1947) until his retirement in 1968 in Albuquerque. Their travels took them to Washington state, Kansas, Idaho, California, Roswell, NM, Panama, Maine, New York, France, Germany, and Texas. She was active with the Officers Wives Club during the war and the NCO Wives Club after the war. The ideal military wife, Adelaide loved to travel. She was able to turn any place into a warm and welcoming home within hours of moving in and made the frequent transfers easier on her children by always encouraging us to look forward to seeing new and different places. She always told us that we were not losing friends, we were going to make new friends, a talent she had perfected. Adelaide was a founding member of St. Jude Parish in Paradise Hills and a member of the altar Society for many years. Always involved in her children's activities, she became a Girl Scout Troop leader in Germany, was a den mother for Paradise Hills Cub Scouts, a Room Mother at Sierra Vista Elementary, and was an active band parent at Cibola High School and for the UNM marching band. Adelaide loved to talk to people. She could walk into a roomful of strangers and have conversations with everyone, getting to know and make friends with many of them. She was charming, warm, and practical and had a marvelous and quirky sense of humor. Once, when asked with whom she had been on the phone for forty-five minutes, she replied "Oh, it was a wrong number". She is probably talking Dad's ear off right now. Adelaide was preceded in death by her husband of 62 years, Gilbert Kemm; brothers, Ricardo and Ralph (who died as a child); and sister Salome. She is survived by her four children, Gilbert R. Kemm of Rio Rancho, Pat K. Mann of Crawford, CO, Gloria K. Curry of Idaho Springs, CO, and Karl Joseph Kemm of Corpus Christi, TX; grandchildren, Michael, Michelle, Murisa, Christopher, Brian, Melissa, and Rebecca; great-grandchildren, Andrea Lynne, Brian, Brenna, Alanna, Caliegh, Armando, and Santos; siblings, Isabel Higbee, Adelina Padilla, and Juan Juarros of Colorado Springs, Benjamin Juarros of Albuquerque, and Estell Allen of Canyon, TX. A Visitation will be held on Friday, December 12, 2008 from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. in the Chapel of Daniels Family Funeral Services, Sara Rd. at Meadowlark Ln., Rio Rancho. The Mass of Resurrection will be celebrated on Saturday, December 13, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. at St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church, 1502 Sara Rd., Rio Rancho. Interment will be on Monday, December 15, 2008 at 10:00 a.m., at the National Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Those who wish to send condolences may do so at www.danielsfuneral.com Arrangements are entrusted to Daniels Family Funeral Services 4310 Sara Road SE Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124 (505) 892-9920
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