Death and Burial
Adella died, aged 100, in 2004 in Roseland, New Jersey and was cremated. She had requested a secular funeral, but this wish was not fulfilled. Her ashes were buried alongside her husband's at the Wilson Memorial Union Church Cemetery in Watchung, New Jersey.
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