Charles Watkins Adair, 93, died on April 13, 2017 at his home in Birmingham, Alabama. He was survived by his wife of seventy years, three children, seven grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren. He graduated from Bessemer High School in 1941, and went to work in the iron ore mines. Two years later, he found himself in the middle of World War II, serving for eight months in the Army Infantry before moving over to the Army Air Corps. While in the Air Corps, he served in the 20th Air Force in the South Pacific as a flight engineer on a C-46 cargo plane. When the war ended he returned home and attended The University of Alabama, where he studied accounting. After college, he went to work for U.S. Steel Corporation. He later worked for Woodward Iron Company, Mead Corporation, the Drummond Company, Alabama By-Products Corporation, and in 1994, he worked handling start-up duties at Rancho La Quinta Country Club in La Quinta, California. He served on the boards at Drummond Company, Ford Tool and Carbide Company, Inc., Central Bank (now BBVA Compass), AmSouth Bank-Birmingham, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama and Alabama By-Products Corporation. He was inducted into the Alabama Business Hall of Fame in 2007. He had a long history of civic involvement, including serving on the boards of Fellowship House, the Boy Scouts of Central Alabama, Saint Anne's Home, as President of the Regional Council on Alcoholism, as Chairman of the Baptist Hospital Foundation, the United Way of Central Alabama, the Bessemer Committee of One Hundred and the Bessemer Chamber of Commerce. He is a former member of the Birmingham Rotary Club and a member and elder at Briarwood Presbyterian Church. Memorial service: 1:00 p.m. April 18 at Faith Presbyterian Church on Valleydale Road in Birmingham.

Full obituary published in The Birmingham News from April 13 to April 16, 2017.