Dr. Bobby L. Adams, age 94

Dr. Bobby L. Adams, age 94 of Rutherfordton, went to be with the Lord Tuesday, July 11, 2023.

Bob was born in rural Oklahoma on June 27, 1929 to Eldred Elbert Adams and Ida lrene Walker Adams.

Bob graduated from high school in 1947 and drove to Oregon and worked at dismantling explosives from the Second World War.

Bob went from college to Central Seminary in Kansas City, MO, then Vanderbilt's Divinity School, and finally Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, TX.

He was in ministry for 70 years. The position varied: pastor, missionary to Chile, Colombia and Argentina, theological educator at the Baptist Seminaries in Cali, Colombia, and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and in the US at New Orleans Baptist Seminary, Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas, and Gardner-Webb University divinity school, in North Carolina, chaplain at Pharr Yarns in McAdenville.

Bob was married twice. He married his college sweetheart, Catherine La Verne James. They had three daughters, Catherine Jane Adams, June Elaine Adams, and Barbara Anne Adams. After La Verne's death, he married Sheri Dawson Adams, and had one daughter, Rachel Caroline Adams.

Bob is missed by his wife, Sheri, his daughters, two sons-in-law, Elaine's husband, Hussein El-Lessy and Rachel's husband, Alexander Byers, and one magnificent grandson.

A memorial service will be held July 30 at First Baptist Church, Rutherfordton.