Hunt Co., TX - Obits: Robert Hawkins Adams
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Robert Hawkins Adams
    Robert Adams was reared by his mother's sister, Esta Burk Yeager and her
husband, Peck Harrison, after his mother died.  Robert graduated from West
Point, was commanding officer of Fort Bliss, and worked in the Space Field. (Per
conversations with James Roach, June-July 1998)
     Robert Hawkins Adams, born September 11, 1911, in Ardmore, Oklahoma, died
in June of 1980.  He was buried in Arlington Cemetery along side is first wife,
Katheryn Lewis Adams.
     Robert went to West Point and was retired military as Major General in the
US Army.  While serving our country in Europe, he received the Silver Star,
Bronze Star, and Oak Leaf Cluster.   He worked for GE as head of logistics on
the Apollo Space Program for ten years.
     He retired to Seattle, Washington, but lived with Frances Yeager in Celeste
for two years after his mother died and before his father remarried when he then
went to Oklahoma to live with them.  The 1920 Hunt County Texas Census shows him
living with Francis Yeager.  He would have been a Celeste student between 1918
and 1920.  He was stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas in June of 1938.
     Mr. Adams had four daughters.  Three of whom lived with Frances Adams,
their aunt, when their mother died.  One of Robert's daughter is an artist and
lives in Paris, France part time. She also resides in Cancun, Mexico.  The
artist daughter's husband is a medical doctor who teaches at a medical school.
Their daughter, the granddaughter of Robert Hawkins Adams, is a medical student.
Another of Robert's daughters teaches at the University of Washington.
     His first wife, Katheryn Lewis, died in October of 1948 with cancer.  She
was a Catholic.  She is buried in Arlington Cemetery.  His second wife was Jane
Adams.  She died in 1982.  (Material from Claudia Yeager Cowley)