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Paper: Sun, The (Lowell, MA)
Deceased: Richard D. Adie
Date: April 27, 2002
Lowell native, former Sun printer; 77
WINDHAM, N.H. Richard D. Adie, 77, a Windham, formerly of Lowell and Chelmsford, and a retired compositor at The Sun, died yesterday, April 27, at the Parkland Medical Center in Derry. He was the husband of Julia A. (Vaughan) Adie, and they celebrated a 53rd wedding anniversary on April 23.
He was born in Lowell on June 14, 1924, son of the late John P. and Jessie M. (Campbell) Adie. He was a graduated Lowell's Keith Academy High School in 1943. He was a Navy veteran of World War II, serving in the Seabees' civil engineering corps in New Guinea and the Philippines.
Mr. Adie had worked at Sullivan Bros. Printing Co. in Lowell, and before his retirement in 1985, he was employed by the Lowell Sun Publishing Co., working in printing and typesetting in the composing room.
He was a communicant of St. Matthew's Church in Windham, as well as St. Mary's Church in Chelmsford, and in Lowell, St. Margaret's Church and Sacred Heart Church He was also a member of the Lowell Knights of Columbus and the Bishop Delaney Assembly of the Fourth Degree of the Lowell area.
Mr. Adie was a member of the Printers International Typographical Union Local # 310 in Lowell.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters and their husbands, Donna E. and Paul Birrow of Chelmsford, and Martha A. and Mark Wagner of Merrimack; two sons and their wives, Richard D. and Mary (Foley) Adie Jr. of Leawood, Kan., and Garrett V. and Christine (Andrews) Adie of Londonderry; a brother and his wife, John R. and Julia (Farnham) Adie of Williamsburg, Va. He also leaves a sister-in-law, Mrs. Arlene (Boyle) Adie of Lowell; nine grandchildren, Katherine and David Birrow, Patrick and Mary K. Adie, and Matthew and Andrew Wagner, James and Carolyn Adie, and Brian Adie; and also several nieces and nephews.
He was also the brother of Ensign Donald M. Adie, who died while serving in the U.S. Navy in 1942, and William F. Adie of Lowell, who died in 1983.
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Paper: Sun, The (Lowell, MA)
Deceased: Richard D. Adie
Date: April 27, 2002
Lowell native, former Sun printer; 77
WINDHAM, N.H. Richard D. Adie, 77, a Windham, formerly of Lowell and Chelmsford, and a retired compositor at The Sun, died yesterday, April 27, at the Parkland Medical Center in Derry. He was the husband of Julia A. (Vaughan) Adie, and they celebrated a 53rd wedding anniversary on April 23.
He was born in Lowell on June 14, 1924, son of the late John P. and Jessie M. (Campbell) Adie. He was a graduated Lowell's Keith Academy High School in 1943. He was a Navy veteran of World War II, serving in the Seabees' civil engineering corps in New Guinea and the Philippines.
Mr. Adie had worked at Sullivan Bros. Printing Co. in Lowell, and before his retirement in 1985, he was employed by the Lowell Sun Publishing Co., working in printing and typesetting in the composing room.
He was a communicant of St. Matthew's Church in Windham, as well as St. Mary's Church in Chelmsford, and in Lowell, St. Margaret's Church and Sacred Heart Church He was also a member of the Lowell Knights of Columbus and the Bishop Delaney Assembly of the Fourth Degree of the Lowell area.
Mr. Adie was a member of the Printers International Typographical Union Local # 310 in Lowell.
Besides his wife, he is survived by two daughters and their husbands, Donna E. and Paul Birrow of Chelmsford, and Martha A. and Mark Wagner of Merrimack; two sons and their wives, Richard D. and Mary (Foley) Adie Jr. of Leawood, Kan., and Garrett V. and Christine (Andrews) Adie of Londonderry; a brother and his wife, John R. and Julia (Farnham) Adie of Williamsburg, Va. He also leaves a sister-in-law, Mrs. Arlene (Boyle) Adie of Lowell; nine grandchildren, Katherine and David Birrow, Patrick and Mary K. Adie, and Matthew and Andrew Wagner, James and Carolyn Adie, and Brian Adie; and also several nieces and nephews.
He was also the brother of Ensign Donald M. Adie, who died while serving in the U.S. Navy in 1942, and William F. Adie of Lowell, who died in 1983.
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