Sudie Muirhead Adams, Emeritus Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Baylor University, died Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. Services will be 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 19, at Lake Shore Baptist Church, with the Rev. Libby Bellinger and the Rev. Dorisanne Cooper officiating. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd.
Sudie was born in Calvert, Texas, to the late Dr. H.H. Muirhead and Sarah Alyne Guynes Muirhead, Baptist missionaries in Brazil. She was educated in Recife, Pernambuco, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Baylor and did additional graduate studies at the University of Texas in Latin, Romance linguistics, Spanish, and Latin American literature. She taught physical education in Plainview and Midland, Texas, and she taught Romance languages at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., The University of Texas in Austin, and at Baylor University.
Sudie's immediate family earned a total of 15 academic degrees, 14 of which were from Baylor. She was a member of Epsilon Chi of Delta Kappa Gamma, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, the Old Main Society, and Baylor Round Table. She was married to Warren H. Adams of Waco, for 31 years. Sudie and Warren taught together at Baylor most of their married life. Their life was filled with travel, devotion to their students, and love for friends and family. Sudie had a kind and generous spirit and will be dearly missed by all who knew her.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren H. Adams; her brothers, Dr. J.J. Muirhead, Dr. S.J. Muirhead, Dr. E.E. Muirhead, and Harry Muirhead; and sisters, Bess M. Estes and Elena M. Ware.
She is survived by her sister, Dulce M. Brooks; and many nephews and nieces who affectionately referred to her as Gran-Sudie.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 11/17/2010...Q6
Sudie was born in Calvert, Texas, to the late Dr. H.H. Muirhead and Sarah Alyne Guynes Muirhead, Baptist missionaries in Brazil. She was educated in Recife, Pernambuco, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Baylor and did additional graduate studies at the University of Texas in Latin, Romance linguistics, Spanish, and Latin American literature. She taught physical education in Plainview and Midland, Texas, and she taught Romance languages at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., The University of Texas in Austin, and at Baylor University.
Sudie's immediate family earned a total of 15 academic degrees, 14 of which were from Baylor. She was a member of Epsilon Chi of Delta Kappa Gamma, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, the Old Main Society, and Baylor Round Table. She was married to Warren H. Adams of Waco, for 31 years. Sudie and Warren taught together at Baylor most of their married life. Their life was filled with travel, devotion to their students, and love for friends and family. Sudie had a kind and generous spirit and will be dearly missed by all who knew her.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren H. Adams; her brothers, Dr. J.J. Muirhead, Dr. S.J. Muirhead, Dr. E.E. Muirhead, and Harry Muirhead; and sisters, Bess M. Estes and Elena M. Ware.
She is survived by her sister, Dulce M. Brooks; and many nephews and nieces who affectionately referred to her as Gran-Sudie.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 11/17/2010...Q6
Sudie Muirhead Adams, Emeritus Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Baylor University, died Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. Services will be 11 a.m. Friday, Nov. 19, at Lake Shore Baptist Church, with the Rev. Libby Bellinger and the Rev. Dorisanne Cooper officiating. Visitation will be 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday at OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd.
Sudie was born in Calvert, Texas, to the late Dr. H.H. Muirhead and Sarah Alyne Guynes Muirhead, Baptist missionaries in Brazil. She was educated in Recife, Pernambuco, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Baylor and did additional graduate studies at the University of Texas in Latin, Romance linguistics, Spanish, and Latin American literature. She taught physical education in Plainview and Midland, Texas, and she taught Romance languages at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., The University of Texas in Austin, and at Baylor University.
Sudie's immediate family earned a total of 15 academic degrees, 14 of which were from Baylor. She was a member of Epsilon Chi of Delta Kappa Gamma, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, the Old Main Society, and Baylor Round Table. She was married to Warren H. Adams of Waco, for 31 years. Sudie and Warren taught together at Baylor most of their married life. Their life was filled with travel, devotion to their students, and love for friends and family. Sudie had a kind and generous spirit and will be dearly missed by all who knew her.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren H. Adams; her brothers, Dr. J.J. Muirhead, Dr. S.J. Muirhead, Dr. E.E. Muirhead, and Harry Muirhead; and sisters, Bess M. Estes and Elena M. Ware.
She is survived by her sister, Dulce M. Brooks; and many nephews and nieces who affectionately referred to her as Gran-Sudie.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 11/17/2010...Q6
Sudie was born in Calvert, Texas, to the late Dr. H.H. Muirhead and Sarah Alyne Guynes Muirhead, Baptist missionaries in Brazil. She was educated in Recife, Pernambuco, and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Baylor and did additional graduate studies at the University of Texas in Latin, Romance linguistics, Spanish, and Latin American literature. She taught physical education in Plainview and Midland, Texas, and she taught Romance languages at Union University in Jackson, Tenn., The University of Texas in Austin, and at Baylor University.
Sudie's immediate family earned a total of 15 academic degrees, 14 of which were from Baylor. She was a member of Epsilon Chi of Delta Kappa Gamma, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, the Old Main Society, and Baylor Round Table. She was married to Warren H. Adams of Waco, for 31 years. Sudie and Warren taught together at Baylor most of their married life. Their life was filled with travel, devotion to their students, and love for friends and family. Sudie had a kind and generous spirit and will be dearly missed by all who knew her.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren H. Adams; her brothers, Dr. J.J. Muirhead, Dr. S.J. Muirhead, Dr. E.E. Muirhead, and Harry Muirhead; and sisters, Bess M. Estes and Elena M. Ware.
She is survived by her sister, Dulce M. Brooks; and many nephews and nieces who affectionately referred to her as Gran-Sudie.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 11/17/2010...Q6
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