Obituary

Lena Jean Addington Adams of Jupiter, FL, died June 13, 2010  She was born October 29, 1929 the daughter of the late Pricey Cook and Elihu Benjamin Addington in Ermine, Kentucky.  She is predeceased by a brother, Elihu Benjamin Addington, Jr., a sister, Goldie Addington Blair Rife, and eleven half brothers and half sisters.  Jean is survived by her husband of 62 years, William Melvin Adams.  She is also survived by her three children, their spouses, six grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren:  Gary William Adams and his wife, Alicia Allen Adams of Huntington, Deborah Adams Cooper and her husband, J. Gregory Cooper, MD of Cynthiana, KY, and Kimberly Adams Wilson and her husband, C.E. Wilson, Jr. of Huntington, grandchildren Bonner William Adams and his wife, Sarah Wohlleb Adams, and their daughter Eloise Gregory Adams of Huntington, Taylor Gordon Adams, and his wife, Jennifer Lytle Adams, and their son Davis Robert Adams of Redondo Beach, CA, James Curtis Matthew Cooper and his fiancé, Erin Lindsey Galasso of Lexington, KY, Lindsay Wilson Taylor and her husband, Jarrod Stewart Spencer Taylor, and their son Jarrod Stewart Spencer Taylor, II of University City, MO, Anna Gayle Cooper of Oak Park, IL, and Clinton Earl Wilson, III of Huntington.  The family would like to give special mention to long-time close family friends, Staige and Sharon Davis of Huntington and their son, Bart Davis, of Raleigh, NC, Frances Burcham of Chesapeake, OH, Louis Heaberlin of Huntington, and Janet Daly of Jupiter, FL.   

Jean loved life, as her friends and family will attest. She was an avid golfer and bridge player, as well as a consummate entertainer who had a gift of making people feel warm and comfortable in her home.  She escorted her children, their spouses, and grandchildren on many wonderful travel adventures creating memories to last a lifetime.  Jean always told her family that when she was gone she wanted them not to mourn but to remember that she had lived a wonderful life.  She was an example of how to fully enjoy this life and have no regrets.  For this, her family is forever grateful.  She was loved as a wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and, perhaps most memorably, as an infectiously fun spirit and true friend. Jean was a member of The Loxahatchee Club in Jupiter, FL, and a past member of Guyan Golf & Country Club in Huntington, WV, where she proudly served one year as President of the Ladies 18 Hole Group. She attended the First Presbyterian Church of Jupiter/Tequesta in Florida and First Presbyterian Church in Huntington. The family would like to express their deep appreciation to Dolly Julian of Scottown, OH, Ada McFann of Lavalette, WV, and Sue Barnhart of Willow Wood, OH  for their loving care giving and to Hospice of Huntington for the staff’s kind and compassionate care. The burial will be private.  The family would like to invite any friends to join them in a celebration of Jean’s life at Guyan Golf and Country Club on Wednesday, June 16 at 4:00PM with a reception to follow. Beard Mortuary, Huntington is in charge of arrangements. The family requests that any expressions of love and sympathy honoring Jean be made by donations to the following, or to a charity or cause of your choice: