James R. Adams

Published 12:00 am Thursday, October 13, 2005

POUND, Va. – James R. &#8221Jim“ Adams, 80, of Kingsport, Tenn., died Oct. 12, 2005, at Wellmont Holston Valley Hospital in Kingsport.

The Pound native was a member of the 1941-42 Pound state champion basketball team, a graduate of Emory and Henry College in Emory, Va., a Navy veteran, having served aboard the USS Guam during World War II and was a member of Eastwood Baptist Church in Bowling Green, Ky. He was a mason and retired from General Electric, where he was a mechanical engineer. He was a son of the late Aubrey Adams and Ethel Hubbard Adams. He was preceded in death by two sisters, Ruble Kincaid and Violet Meade.

Memorial service will be at 6 p.m. Friday at Baker Funeral Home, with a reception to follow. Visitation will begin at 5 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to the Pound Food Bank or to the Donnie Shepherd Educational Fund, 10414 Rose Shortt Hollow, Pound, VA 24279, c/o Flaudine Adams.

Survivors include his wife, Flaudine Shortt Adams; two sons, Dr. John Adams and his wife, Mary Hanna, of Columbia, S.C., and Dr. Jeffrey Adams and his wife, Dr. Tammy Willis, of Bowling Green; two sisters, Lilly Green of Orlando, Fla., and Martha Beverly of Wise, Va.; a brother, Dillard Adams of Brevard, N.C.; two grandsons, Benjamin and Nathan Adams; two granddaughters, Sarah Adams Harris and Emily Adams Kuhn; two great-grandsons, John Samuel and Henry Hampton Adams; and several nieces, nephews, friends and loved ones.