Janet Adair died Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, at her home in Eatonton, surrounded by her loving family. She was 75
.Memorial services will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday at Vining Ivy Hill Chapel, with family visitation starting at 2 p.m.
Born in Macon, Georgia, Janet was the oldest of the three children of Battle and Micky Smith. She attended school in Macon and Cochran before moving to Eatonton when the Smiths bought the Eatonton Messenger in 1956.
Janet trained as an x-ray technician at Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital and then worked in Savannah, where she met and later married an Air Force pilot, Daryl Wilson. In the1960s, she moved into the life of mother and military wife as Daryl flew missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis, polar and border patrols, and three tours in Vietnam.
The Air Force eventually sent the couple to Portsmouth, N.H.; Merced, California, and finally to Rome, N.Y., where they settled post-Air Force to raise their two daughters and get involved in the beginnings of computer enterprises.
Following Daryl's sudden death in 1986, Janet returned to Eatonton to help with the family newspaper business but would leave after a couple of years for a series of mid-management positions in the retail trade at Rochester, N.H., Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Augusta, and Athens. With her mother experiencing health problems, she returned once again to Eatonton and the Messenger in 1996. After 14 years as a widow, she remarried in 2000, to the Messenger's news editor, Rufus Adair.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations in Janet's memory to http://mskcc.convio.net/goto/Janet_Adair or the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065. .
.Memorial services will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday at Vining Ivy Hill Chapel, with family visitation starting at 2 p.m.
Born in Macon, Georgia, Janet was the oldest of the three children of Battle and Micky Smith. She attended school in Macon and Cochran before moving to Eatonton when the Smiths bought the Eatonton Messenger in 1956.
Janet trained as an x-ray technician at Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital and then worked in Savannah, where she met and later married an Air Force pilot, Daryl Wilson. In the1960s, she moved into the life of mother and military wife as Daryl flew missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis, polar and border patrols, and three tours in Vietnam.
The Air Force eventually sent the couple to Portsmouth, N.H.; Merced, California, and finally to Rome, N.Y., where they settled post-Air Force to raise their two daughters and get involved in the beginnings of computer enterprises.
Following Daryl's sudden death in 1986, Janet returned to Eatonton to help with the family newspaper business but would leave after a couple of years for a series of mid-management positions in the retail trade at Rochester, N.H., Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Augusta, and Athens. With her mother experiencing health problems, she returned once again to Eatonton and the Messenger in 1996. After 14 years as a widow, she remarried in 2000, to the Messenger's news editor, Rufus Adair.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations in Janet's memory to http://mskcc.convio.net/goto/Janet_Adair or the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065. .
Janet Adair died Wednesday, Dec. 24, 2014, at her home in Eatonton, surrounded by her loving family. She was 75
.Memorial services will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday at Vining Ivy Hill Chapel, with family visitation starting at 2 p.m.
Born in Macon, Georgia, Janet was the oldest of the three children of Battle and Micky Smith. She attended school in Macon and Cochran before moving to Eatonton when the Smiths bought the Eatonton Messenger in 1956.
Janet trained as an x-ray technician at Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital and then worked in Savannah, where she met and later married an Air Force pilot, Daryl Wilson. In the1960s, she moved into the life of mother and military wife as Daryl flew missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis, polar and border patrols, and three tours in Vietnam.
The Air Force eventually sent the couple to Portsmouth, N.H.; Merced, California, and finally to Rome, N.Y., where they settled post-Air Force to raise their two daughters and get involved in the beginnings of computer enterprises.
Following Daryl's sudden death in 1986, Janet returned to Eatonton to help with the family newspaper business but would leave after a couple of years for a series of mid-management positions in the retail trade at Rochester, N.H., Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Augusta, and Athens. With her mother experiencing health problems, she returned once again to Eatonton and the Messenger in 1996. After 14 years as a widow, she remarried in 2000, to the Messenger's news editor, Rufus Adair.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations in Janet's memory to http://mskcc.convio.net/goto/Janet_Adair or the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065. .
.Memorial services will be held at 3:00 p.m. Sunday at Vining Ivy Hill Chapel, with family visitation starting at 2 p.m.
Born in Macon, Georgia, Janet was the oldest of the three children of Battle and Micky Smith. She attended school in Macon and Cochran before moving to Eatonton when the Smiths bought the Eatonton Messenger in 1956.
Janet trained as an x-ray technician at Atlanta's Piedmont Hospital and then worked in Savannah, where she met and later married an Air Force pilot, Daryl Wilson. In the1960s, she moved into the life of mother and military wife as Daryl flew missions during the Cuban Missile Crisis, polar and border patrols, and three tours in Vietnam.
The Air Force eventually sent the couple to Portsmouth, N.H.; Merced, California, and finally to Rome, N.Y., where they settled post-Air Force to raise their two daughters and get involved in the beginnings of computer enterprises.
Following Daryl's sudden death in 1986, Janet returned to Eatonton to help with the family newspaper business but would leave after a couple of years for a series of mid-management positions in the retail trade at Rochester, N.H., Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C., Augusta, and Athens. With her mother experiencing health problems, she returned once again to Eatonton and the Messenger in 1996. After 14 years as a widow, she remarried in 2000, to the Messenger's news editor, Rufus Adair.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests donations in Janet's memory to http://mskcc.convio.net/goto/Janet_Adair or the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research Center, 1275 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065. .
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