THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, October 19, 1995 TAG: 9510190319
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Dr. Mac Carter Adams of Ponce Inlet, Fla., died in his home on October 6, 1995.
Dr. Adams was born January 3, 1925, in Gretna, Va., to the late Selma and Neville Lamont Adams. He was a brother of the late Rhae Woodson Adams of Virginia Beach.
Dr. Adams is survived by his wife, Sammi Adams, three children, and four grandchildren. His two daughters are Mrs. Kimberly Kolloff and Mrs. Kyle Meahl of the Boston, Mass., area. His son is Christopher Carter Adams of Steamboat Springs, Colo.
Dr. Adams was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School in Portsmouth, and of the University of Virginia's V-12 Program. He received his doctor of aero-nautical engineering degree from Cornell University, in Ithica, N.Y. He designed the heat shield (known at the abalating nose cone) that allowed space ships to re-enter the earth's atmosphere and was chosen one of the ten outstanding young men in the United States of America in 1960 by the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce for his major contributions to the space program. He later retired as a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense under Ronald Reagan's Administration. He was an avid golfer.
A private service was held in Ponce Inlet of Oct. 17th. The family requests that memorial donations be made to Hospice Volunteers Inc., 4663 Haygood Road, Virginia Beach, 23455. Maestas Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.
KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY
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