Valdia Joseph “Coon” Adams Jr.,

Valdia Joseph “Coon” Adams Jr., 86, a native and resident of Houma, died at 7:10 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 4, 2008. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to funeral time Wednesday at Chauvin Funeral Home. Mass will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the funeral home chapel, with burial in St. Francis de Sales Cemetery No. 2. He is survived by five sons, Jerry Adams and wife, Julianne, David Adams, Donald Adams and wife, Liz, Rickie Adams and wife, Greta, and Steve Adams and wife, Penny, of Houma; two daughters, Brenda A. Samanie and husband, Michael, of Houma, and Debra A. Champagne and companion, Craig, of Gheens; two sisters, Mildred A. Mount and Mary A. Berniard of Houma; 20 grandchildren; and 16 great- grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Eula Lapeyrouse Adams; his parents, Valdia J. Adams Sr. and Elizabeth Bessie Moore Adams; one son, Valdia Joseph Adams III; one granddaughter; one brother, Nolan “Sam” Adams; and four sisters, May A. Pierce, Euna A. Hebert, Gladys A. H. Domangue and Genevieve A. B. LeBouef. He was a retired truck driver and night watchman with Patterson Truck Lines. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II and a former member of the VFW Post No. 3700. He was a parishioner of St. Bernadette Catholic Church.