Vada graduated from Lubbock High School, Methodist Hospital School of Nursing and received her BSN from West Texas State University in Canyon, TX. She worked for many years at Methodist and Covenant Hospital as a nurse house supervisor. She was a member of First Baptist Church and had been active in the church at Ventura Place.
She was preceded in death by her parents and sisters Leah Bartley and Jean Adkins. She is survived by a brother, Tommy Somers and wife, Joyce, and sisters Pat Somers Bunker and husband Rod and by Dorothy Somers Headley. She is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews that loved her.
Services will be at 2 pm at Resthaven Funeral Home on Monday, May 23. Visitation will precede the service from noon until 2.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.resthavenfuneralhome.com for the Somers family.