Wilma Watrous Adams Hambleton 1916-1953
2010
Wilma Watrous was born to Earl Pancake Watrous and Florence Nelson Watrous in Salt Lake City, Utah. She was the niece of direct ancestor Everest Elliott Watrous. When her paternal grandmother Edith Glendora Pancake Watrous died in 1920, she left several keepsakes to Wilma. One was a print of a famous painting called Madonna of the Thumb. We don’t know if the painting became part of Wilma’s home. Wilma’s great aunt Sarah Rebecca Watrous Gittings was also fond of Wilma as her letters will attest. She made many comments in writing about the things she wanted to give to Wilma.
She grew to adulthood and attended Murray High School in Murray, Salt Lake County, Utah. About 1939, she married James Adams. Nothing more is known about him. Wilma and James became the parents of three daughters who are living. In 1946, Wilma married Max Hambleton. They had one child together named Margo. Margo died as an infant. At the young age of thirty-seven, Wilma Watrous Adams Hambleton died of carcinoma. Her grandfather Henry Reynolds Watrous had died from complications of the same condition twenty years earlier Wilma was buried in the Murray City Cemetery in Murray, Utah. Wilma was a member of the Murray Baptist Church, where she married her first husband James.
Wilma’s Baby Book is in the possession of her half-brother who lives in Utah.
