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Sept. 19, 2006 issue
Former EMU nurse dies


By Ron Podell

 

Georgia Hope Adams, a former employee in Eastern Michigan University’s Health Center who retired in 1977, died Sept. 13. She was 95.

Born July 29, 1911, in Alsen, N.D., she moved to Ann Arbor in 1920. She graduated from Ann Arbor High School in 1929 and the University of Michigan in 1933. she was married Oct. 19, 1935, to Geroge Everett Adams in Ypsilanti.

Adams was a registered nurse in Illinois and Michigan. She was in a number of nursing positions, eventually retiring from EMU's Health Center in 1977.

She was a member of the P.E.O. Sisterhood, First Presbyterian Church of Ypsilanti, the Ypsilanti Ladies Literary Club and volunteered weekly at the Gilbert Residence in Ypsilanti for more than 30 years. Adams was an avid golfer, playing weekly into her 80's. She was a gardener and seamstress.

Adams is survived by a son, Charles Adams, of Charlevoix; eight grandchildren and eight great grandchildren.