Louise B. Adams


Louise Bradley Adams died on Jan. 10 in Harrisonburg, Va. Louise was born on Nov. 24, 1921, in Madison, Wis., daughter of Robert Foster and Rhoda Vandiver Bradley.

She was preceded in death by her husband of over 55 years, Francis. R. (Frank) Adams Jr. She is survived by a daughter, Katherine Bradley Adams, and a granddaughter, Anna Efrat Adams, of Brookline, Mass.; and step-children Barbara Adams Brownlee of Milheim, Pa., and Francis Raymond Adams III, of Selinsgrove, Pa., and their children and their grandchildren.

Mrs. Adams received her B.A. from the University of South Carolina and her M.A from the University of Wisconsin. She served in the Signal Corps towards the end of World War II. She taught at the National Cathedral School for Girls, Russell Sage College and the University of Maryland, where she also did further study. She taught at East Carolina University from 1958-1968 and at Blue Ridge Community College from 1968-1986, where she became the Academic Chairman of Humanities. She was a past president of the North Carolina-Virginia College English Association. She was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union.

A memorial service will be held at 11 a.m. at the Plecker Center on the Blue Ridge Community College campus on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2008. A reception will follow.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Blue Ridge Community College Educational Foundation, Inc., Louise B. Adams Memorial Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 80, Weyer's Cave, Virginia, 24486