Bath, N.Y. — Guila Porter Adams, 91, died Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, at the Davenport-Taylor Health Center.
Mrs. Adams was born in Fayetteville, Ark., on Oct. 11, 1919, the youngest daughter of Robert Edwin and Elizabeth Haney Porter, former missionaries in Cuba.
Mrs. Adams graduated from Fayetteville High School and attended the University of Arkansas, where she was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority and met fellow student and future husband, Robert. The couple married in February 1938, moving to Hot Springs, Ark., before settling in Bath, N.Y., where Mr. Adams had obtained a position with the Bath National Bank.
Mrs. Adams was private, gentle and gracious, her principles and manners reflecting Southern morés of civility, gentility and constraint. She took pride and pleasure in creating a dignified and elegant home, restoring an historic house, which is now listed on the National Historic Register. As a former owner of Red Barn Antiques in Kanona, N.Y., she also cultivated her interest in the period furniture with which she furnished it.
Known in the community for her volunteer activities with the Altar Guild at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, where she regularly attended services for 50 years, Mrs. Adams was also active in Daughters of the American Revolution, holding local chapter meetings for a period in her home.
In later years, she and her husband traveled, often on long freighter voyages, to Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Mrs. Adams is predeceased by: her husband, Robert; sisters, Edwina Colhard and Elizabeth Richardson; and by her daughter, Ann.
Surviving family members include: daughter, Guila Adams-Armstrong of Bath, N.Y.; sons Daniel of North Fort Myers, Fla.; Byron of Williamsburg, Va.; Robert of Ontario, Canada; nephew, Robert Richardson of North Little Rock, Ark.; niece Kelly Adams of North Carolina; twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Rev. Jeffrey McDowell will preside at a commemorative service on Sat., Jan. 29, at 2 p.m., at Fagan's Funeral Home, in Bath, N.Y.
Mrs. Adams will be laid to rest in Nondaga Cemetery alongside her husband.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Thomas Episcopal Church or the Dormann Library.
Mrs. Adams was born in Fayetteville, Ark., on Oct. 11, 1919, the youngest daughter of Robert Edwin and Elizabeth Haney Porter, former missionaries in Cuba.
Mrs. Adams graduated from Fayetteville High School and attended the University of Arkansas, where she was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority and met fellow student and future husband, Robert. The couple married in February 1938, moving to Hot Springs, Ark., before settling in Bath, N.Y., where Mr. Adams had obtained a position with the Bath National Bank.
Mrs. Adams was private, gentle and gracious, her principles and manners reflecting Southern morés of civility, gentility and constraint. She took pride and pleasure in creating a dignified and elegant home, restoring an historic house, which is now listed on the National Historic Register. As a former owner of Red Barn Antiques in Kanona, N.Y., she also cultivated her interest in the period furniture with which she furnished it.
Known in the community for her volunteer activities with the Altar Guild at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, where she regularly attended services for 50 years, Mrs. Adams was also active in Daughters of the American Revolution, holding local chapter meetings for a period in her home.
In later years, she and her husband traveled, often on long freighter voyages, to Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Mrs. Adams is predeceased by: her husband, Robert; sisters, Edwina Colhard and Elizabeth Richardson; and by her daughter, Ann.
Surviving family members include: daughter, Guila Adams-Armstrong of Bath, N.Y.; sons Daniel of North Fort Myers, Fla.; Byron of Williamsburg, Va.; Robert of Ontario, Canada; nephew, Robert Richardson of North Little Rock, Ark.; niece Kelly Adams of North Carolina; twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Rev. Jeffrey McDowell will preside at a commemorative service on Sat., Jan. 29, at 2 p.m., at Fagan's Funeral Home, in Bath, N.Y.
Mrs. Adams will be laid to rest in Nondaga Cemetery alongside her husband.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Thomas Episcopal Church or the Dormann Library.
Bath, N.Y. — Guila Porter Adams, 91, died Friday, Jan. 21, 2011, at the Davenport-Taylor Health Center.
Mrs. Adams was born in Fayetteville, Ark., on Oct. 11, 1919, the youngest daughter of Robert Edwin and Elizabeth Haney Porter, former missionaries in Cuba.
Mrs. Adams graduated from Fayetteville High School and attended the University of Arkansas, where she was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority and met fellow student and future husband, Robert. The couple married in February 1938, moving to Hot Springs, Ark., before settling in Bath, N.Y., where Mr. Adams had obtained a position with the Bath National Bank.
Mrs. Adams was private, gentle and gracious, her principles and manners reflecting Southern morés of civility, gentility and constraint. She took pride and pleasure in creating a dignified and elegant home, restoring an historic house, which is now listed on the National Historic Register. As a former owner of Red Barn Antiques in Kanona, N.Y., she also cultivated her interest in the period furniture with which she furnished it.
Known in the community for her volunteer activities with the Altar Guild at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, where she regularly attended services for 50 years, Mrs. Adams was also active in Daughters of the American Revolution, holding local chapter meetings for a period in her home.
In later years, she and her husband traveled, often on long freighter voyages, to Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Mrs. Adams is predeceased by: her husband, Robert; sisters, Edwina Colhard and Elizabeth Richardson; and by her daughter, Ann.
Surviving family members include: daughter, Guila Adams-Armstrong of Bath, N.Y.; sons Daniel of North Fort Myers, Fla.; Byron of Williamsburg, Va.; Robert of Ontario, Canada; nephew, Robert Richardson of North Little Rock, Ark.; niece Kelly Adams of North Carolina; twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Rev. Jeffrey McDowell will preside at a commemorative service on Sat., Jan. 29, at 2 p.m., at Fagan's Funeral Home, in Bath, N.Y.
Mrs. Adams will be laid to rest in Nondaga Cemetery alongside her husband.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Thomas Episcopal Church or the Dormann Library.
Mrs. Adams was born in Fayetteville, Ark., on Oct. 11, 1919, the youngest daughter of Robert Edwin and Elizabeth Haney Porter, former missionaries in Cuba.
Mrs. Adams graduated from Fayetteville High School and attended the University of Arkansas, where she was a member of the Delta Gamma Sorority and met fellow student and future husband, Robert. The couple married in February 1938, moving to Hot Springs, Ark., before settling in Bath, N.Y., where Mr. Adams had obtained a position with the Bath National Bank.
Mrs. Adams was private, gentle and gracious, her principles and manners reflecting Southern morés of civility, gentility and constraint. She took pride and pleasure in creating a dignified and elegant home, restoring an historic house, which is now listed on the National Historic Register. As a former owner of Red Barn Antiques in Kanona, N.Y., she also cultivated her interest in the period furniture with which she furnished it.
Known in the community for her volunteer activities with the Altar Guild at St. Thomas Episcopal Church, where she regularly attended services for 50 years, Mrs. Adams was also active in Daughters of the American Revolution, holding local chapter meetings for a period in her home.
In later years, she and her husband traveled, often on long freighter voyages, to Great Britain, Australia and New Zealand.
Mrs. Adams is predeceased by: her husband, Robert; sisters, Edwina Colhard and Elizabeth Richardson; and by her daughter, Ann.
Surviving family members include: daughter, Guila Adams-Armstrong of Bath, N.Y.; sons Daniel of North Fort Myers, Fla.; Byron of Williamsburg, Va.; Robert of Ontario, Canada; nephew, Robert Richardson of North Little Rock, Ark.; niece Kelly Adams of North Carolina; twelve grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.
Rev. Jeffrey McDowell will preside at a commemorative service on Sat., Jan. 29, at 2 p.m., at Fagan's Funeral Home, in Bath, N.Y.
Mrs. Adams will be laid to rest in Nondaga Cemetery alongside her husband.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to St. Thomas Episcopal Church or the Dormann Library.
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