Brenda Gail Adams, 72, of Yorktown, VA, passed away on August 16, 2020 at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, VA. She was born in Troutman, NC on September 10, 1947 and lived her formative years on her family’s farm in Oswalt, NC. She graduated from Troutman High School in 1965 and continued her education at Lenoir Ryhne College where she graduated with a BS in nursing in 1970. She was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the United States Air Force in 1970 and proudly served for seven years as a flight nurse and psychiatric nurse at duty stations in the United States and Europe. In 1983, she was employed by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Hampton, VA as a psychiatric nurse clinician and retired from the VA in 2018 after thirty-five years of employment. Gail received numerous awards, commendations and certificates during her years as an Air Force nurse and VA clinician, but she was most proud of the appreciation and thanks that she received from her many patients who she had helped during her nursing career.
Gail was a voracious reader and she loved downhill skiing and bicycle touring. She skied many of the “black diamond” runs of the Alps, the Rockies and New England and she was always ready to be the first to lay tracks down the fresh power of a challenging run. When the snow was gone, she could be found riding with her husband on one of their tandem bicycles touring the roads of Europe or the United States.
Gail is survived by Tom Adams, her husband of forty-eight years; brothers, Leonard “Gary” Christie (wife: Connie) of Concord, NC, Ronald Lynn Christie (friend: John) of Troutman, NC; and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. She was preceded in death by her father, Leonard Harding Christie; mother, Myrtle Cash Christie; and sister, Doris Jenean Christie Myers.
A private celebration of her life will be held with her immediate family. In her memory, she would ask that you offer some act of kindness to a friend, a neighbor, or to a total stranger and enjoy your life to its fullest.
Arrangements in care of Cremation Society of Virginia – Newport News Office.
Gail was a voracious reader and she loved downhill skiing and bicycle touring. She skied many of the “black diamond” runs of the Alps, the Rockies and New England and she was always ready to be the first to lay tracks down the fresh power of a challenging run. When the snow was gone, she could be found riding with her husband on one of their tandem bicycles touring the roads of Europe or the United States.
Gail is survived by Tom Adams, her husband of forty-eight years; brothers, Leonard “Gary” Christie (wife: Connie) of Concord, NC, Ronald Lynn Christie (friend: John) of Troutman, NC; and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. She was preceded in death by her father, Leonard Harding Christie; mother, Myrtle Cash Christie; and sister, Doris Jenean Christie Myers.
A private celebration of her life will be held with her immediate family. In her memory, she would ask that you offer some act of kindness to a friend, a neighbor, or to a total stranger and enjoy your life to its fullest.
Arrangements in care of Cremation Society of Virginia – Newport News Office.
Brenda Gail Adams, 72, of Yorktown, VA, passed away on August 16, 2020 at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, VA. She was born in Troutman, NC on September 10, 1947 and lived her formative years on her family’s farm in Oswalt, NC. She graduated from Troutman High School in 1965 and continued her education at Lenoir Ryhne College where she graduated with a BS in nursing in 1970. She was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the United States Air Force in 1970 and proudly served for seven years as a flight nurse and psychiatric nurse at duty stations in the United States and Europe. In 1983, she was employed by the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Hampton, VA as a psychiatric nurse clinician and retired from the VA in 2018 after thirty-five years of employment. Gail received numerous awards, commendations and certificates during her years as an Air Force nurse and VA clinician, but she was most proud of the appreciation and thanks that she received from her many patients who she had helped during her nursing career.
Gail was a voracious reader and she loved downhill skiing and bicycle touring. She skied many of the “black diamond” runs of the Alps, the Rockies and New England and she was always ready to be the first to lay tracks down the fresh power of a challenging run. When the snow was gone, she could be found riding with her husband on one of their tandem bicycles touring the roads of Europe or the United States.
Gail is survived by Tom Adams, her husband of forty-eight years; brothers, Leonard “Gary” Christie (wife: Connie) of Concord, NC, Ronald Lynn Christie (friend: John) of Troutman, NC; and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. She was preceded in death by her father, Leonard Harding Christie; mother, Myrtle Cash Christie; and sister, Doris Jenean Christie Myers.
A private celebration of her life will be held with her immediate family. In her memory, she would ask that you offer some act of kindness to a friend, a neighbor, or to a total stranger and enjoy your life to its fullest.
Arrangements in care of Cremation Society of Virginia – Newport News Office.
Gail was a voracious reader and she loved downhill skiing and bicycle touring. She skied many of the “black diamond” runs of the Alps, the Rockies and New England and she was always ready to be the first to lay tracks down the fresh power of a challenging run. When the snow was gone, she could be found riding with her husband on one of their tandem bicycles touring the roads of Europe or the United States.
Gail is survived by Tom Adams, her husband of forty-eight years; brothers, Leonard “Gary” Christie (wife: Connie) of Concord, NC, Ronald Lynn Christie (friend: John) of Troutman, NC; and numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews. She was preceded in death by her father, Leonard Harding Christie; mother, Myrtle Cash Christie; and sister, Doris Jenean Christie Myers.
A private celebration of her life will be held with her immediate family. In her memory, she would ask that you offer some act of kindness to a friend, a neighbor, or to a total stranger and enjoy your life to its fullest.
Arrangements in care of Cremation Society of Virginia – Newport News Office.
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