William ”Bill” Earl Adams

William Earl Adams was born in Colum­bus, OH, August 5, 1945 and left the Earth at the age of 67 on Sep­tem­ber 14, 2012 after a long illness.

William grad­u­ated from Pleas­ant View High School in Gal­loway, OH then attended OSU before join­ing the Air Force dur­ing the Viet­nam War where he served as a Communications-Electronics Spe­cial­ist. After leav­ing the Air Force, he worked for Colum­bus and South­ern Elec­tric before start­ing his own busi­ness as a Com­puter Programmer/System Analyst.

His loves were fish­ing, wood cut­ting, pho­tog­ra­phy; any­thing that got him onto the land to “play” with Ray and Andy. He was also bril­liant. When the Bren­ne­mans first met Bill, they thought he was “full of him­self”; he seemed to think he knew every­thing. Real­iza­tion was that, he was extremely intel­li­gent and usu­ally did know what he was talk­ing about until “chemo brain” destroyed his abil­ity to think and func­tion. Why stay if you can’t fish and have lost your hunger for knowledge?

He was pre­ceded in death by his par­ents, Silas and Geral­dine Tracy Adams. He is sur­vived by wife, Pha­dia Cindy Bren­ne­man Adams of Pow­ell, OH, brother and sister-in-law, Mike and Sherry Adams of Colum­bus, OH, son and fam­ily, Sam and Cathy Adams and grand­son Calvin of Black­lick, OH and daugh­ter and fam­ily, Doc­tor Beth Adams Jansen, Corey Jansen and two grand­sons, Cameron and Con­nor of Mead, Wash­ing­ton. He is also sur­vived by the “Brenneman/Nikolaus” clan that loved him dearly and will miss him greatly.

Bill’s wish was to be cre­mated with no for­mal cer­e­mony. Fam­ily and friends gath­ered on beau­ti­ful Sun­day, Sep. 30^th at the Bren­ne­man Farm to cel­e­brate Bill’s life. A Sugar Maple will be planted by the lake so we can sit by the water in the shade and feel his pres­ence at our Sanc­tu­ary. Much appre­ci­a­tion and love goes to Dad, Ray Bren­ne­man who is the land stew­ard and shares the heart of the land that will always be home. Bill is Free and Bill is Home!

If you would like to make a dona­tion in William’s name, please write “in mem­ory of Bill Adams” on the memo line and send to High­lands Nature Sanc­tu­ary, 7660 Cave Road, Bain­bridge, OH 45612.

Posted by Rob Hamilton on Oct 8 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.