Edgar Adams
Edgar Lee Adams, 92, of Brooksburg, Indiana, died Monday, June 1, 2020, at Norton’s Hospital in Louisville.
He was born in Louisville on Dec. 12, 1927, to Hazel Stone Adams and Harvey Lee Adams. He grew up in Louisville where he worked with his dad on the railroad while living on Rudd Avenue by the Ohio River dike wall. He also spent part of his childhood in Oklahoma with the Indians riding horses, fishing and hunting, served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and in Naval Ordinance on Lake Erie where he became a charter boat captain and was a lifeguard at Toledo Beach in his spare time. He bought a marina on the Ohio River near Madison, Indiana, and went on to run Adams Marina for more than 50 years at Brooksburg where he and his son built many boats that are still operating from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes and along the East Coast.
He had delivered newspapers by horseback as a young man to people living in the shantytown along the river, lived through the 1937 flood, of which he had many stories about those trials and tribulations, and built several houses in multiple states for himself and others over the years. He enjoyed exercising, walking daily and watching the river, boats, animals and birds.
He was married twice. He had five children with his first wife, Zelda, and married his second wife, Rosie, after moving to the Madison area.
Survivors include two sons Raymond Adams and Ronald Adams, both of Milton, Kentucky; two daughters, Juanita “Kathy” Humphrey of Madison and Jennifer Jackson of Kent, Indiana; and five grandsons, nine granddaughters; and other family members.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife of 43 years, Rose L. Armstrong Adams, in 2017; a brother, Charlie Adams; a son Robert Lee Adams; and a grandson.
Services will be held at a later date.
Edgar Lee Adams, 92, of Brooksburg, Indiana, died Monday, June 1, 2020, at Norton’s Hospital in Louisville.
He was born in Louisville on Dec. 12, 1927, to Hazel Stone Adams and Harvey Lee Adams. He grew up in Louisville where he worked with his dad on the railroad while living on Rudd Avenue by the Ohio River dike wall. He also spent part of his childhood in Oklahoma with the Indians riding horses, fishing and hunting, served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and in Naval Ordinance on Lake Erie where he became a charter boat captain and was a lifeguard at Toledo Beach in his spare time. He bought a marina on the Ohio River near Madison, Indiana, and went on to run Adams Marina for more than 50 years at Brooksburg where he and his son built many boats that are still operating from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes and along the East Coast.
He had delivered newspapers by horseback as a young man to people living in the shantytown along the river, lived through the 1937 flood, of which he had many stories about those trials and tribulations, and built several houses in multiple states for himself and others over the years. He enjoyed exercising, walking daily and watching the river, boats, animals and birds.
He was married twice. He had five children with his first wife, Zelda, and married his second wife, Rosie, after moving to the Madison area.
Survivors include two sons Raymond Adams and Ronald Adams, both of Milton, Kentucky; two daughters, Juanita “Kathy” Humphrey of Madison and Jennifer Jackson of Kent, Indiana; and five grandsons, nine granddaughters; and other family members.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife of 43 years, Rose L. Armstrong Adams, in 2017; a brother, Charlie Adams; a son Robert Lee Adams; and a grandson.
Services will be held at a later date.
Edgar Adams
Edgar Lee Adams, 92, of Brooksburg, Indiana, died Monday, June 1, 2020, at Norton’s Hospital in Louisville.
He was born in Louisville on Dec. 12, 1927, to Hazel Stone Adams and Harvey Lee Adams. He grew up in Louisville where he worked with his dad on the railroad while living on Rudd Avenue by the Ohio River dike wall. He also spent part of his childhood in Oklahoma with the Indians riding horses, fishing and hunting, served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and in Naval Ordinance on Lake Erie where he became a charter boat captain and was a lifeguard at Toledo Beach in his spare time. He bought a marina on the Ohio River near Madison, Indiana, and went on to run Adams Marina for more than 50 years at Brooksburg where he and his son built many boats that are still operating from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes and along the East Coast.
He had delivered newspapers by horseback as a young man to people living in the shantytown along the river, lived through the 1937 flood, of which he had many stories about those trials and tribulations, and built several houses in multiple states for himself and others over the years. He enjoyed exercising, walking daily and watching the river, boats, animals and birds.
He was married twice. He had five children with his first wife, Zelda, and married his second wife, Rosie, after moving to the Madison area.
Survivors include two sons Raymond Adams and Ronald Adams, both of Milton, Kentucky; two daughters, Juanita “Kathy” Humphrey of Madison and Jennifer Jackson of Kent, Indiana; and five grandsons, nine granddaughters; and other family members.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife of 43 years, Rose L. Armstrong Adams, in 2017; a brother, Charlie Adams; a son Robert Lee Adams; and a grandson.
Services will be held at a later date.
Edgar Lee Adams, 92, of Brooksburg, Indiana, died Monday, June 1, 2020, at Norton’s Hospital in Louisville.
He was born in Louisville on Dec. 12, 1927, to Hazel Stone Adams and Harvey Lee Adams. He grew up in Louisville where he worked with his dad on the railroad while living on Rudd Avenue by the Ohio River dike wall. He also spent part of his childhood in Oklahoma with the Indians riding horses, fishing and hunting, served in the U.S. Army during the Korean War and in Naval Ordinance on Lake Erie where he became a charter boat captain and was a lifeguard at Toledo Beach in his spare time. He bought a marina on the Ohio River near Madison, Indiana, and went on to run Adams Marina for more than 50 years at Brooksburg where he and his son built many boats that are still operating from the Gulf of Mexico to the Great Lakes and along the East Coast.
He had delivered newspapers by horseback as a young man to people living in the shantytown along the river, lived through the 1937 flood, of which he had many stories about those trials and tribulations, and built several houses in multiple states for himself and others over the years. He enjoyed exercising, walking daily and watching the river, boats, animals and birds.
He was married twice. He had five children with his first wife, Zelda, and married his second wife, Rosie, after moving to the Madison area.
Survivors include two sons Raymond Adams and Ronald Adams, both of Milton, Kentucky; two daughters, Juanita “Kathy” Humphrey of Madison and Jennifer Jackson of Kent, Indiana; and five grandsons, nine granddaughters; and other family members.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife of 43 years, Rose L. Armstrong Adams, in 2017; a brother, Charlie Adams; a son Robert Lee Adams; and a grandson.
Services will be held at a later date.
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