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Kemmie Lou <I>Wheeler</I> Adair

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Kemmie Lou Wheeler Adair

Birth
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Death
10 Apr 2010 (aged 88)
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA
Burial
Houston, Harris County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 29.7226349, Longitude: -95.3037333
Plot
Abbey Mausoleum IV, Section 430
Memorial ID
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Daughter of John Wheeler & Jimmie Lee Wheeler. Wife of Paul Neal "Red" Adair, [Married: December 3, 1939]. Mother of James Paul Adair & Robyn Lucille Adair.

During World War II, Kemmie sang as a member of The Adair Sisters on the radio in Houston, and as The Trio on military bases and in military hospitals around Texas. During her lifetime, Kemmie was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, a loyal and supportive friend, mentor and confidant, an avid and able fisherman, and one-half of a very successful firefighting team with her famous husband, Red Adair. Kemmie and her husband supported many charitable organizations especially those helping her children. Among them were the Leukemia Society of America, the Easter Seal Society, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Texas EquuSearch, the Special Olympics, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. She was also a long supporter of the ministry of Billy Graham and of Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse.
Daughter of John Wheeler & Jimmie Lee Wheeler. Wife of Paul Neal "Red" Adair, [Married: December 3, 1939]. Mother of James Paul Adair & Robyn Lucille Adair.

During World War II, Kemmie sang as a member of The Adair Sisters on the radio in Houston, and as The Trio on military bases and in military hospitals around Texas. During her lifetime, Kemmie was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother, a loyal and supportive friend, mentor and confidant, an avid and able fisherman, and one-half of a very successful firefighting team with her famous husband, Red Adair. Kemmie and her husband supported many charitable organizations especially those helping her children. Among them were the Leukemia Society of America, the Easter Seal Society, the Muscular Dystrophy Association, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Texas EquuSearch, the Special Olympics, and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. She was also a long supporter of the ministry of Billy Graham and of Franklin Graham's Samaritan's Purse.


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