Anne Adams

Anne Horton Adams of Dry Fork, Virginia passed away peacefully on January 31, 2023. Anne was born in Derby, Virginia in her family home to Ambrose Joshua and Margaret Carrier Horton on Valentine’s Day, 1932. Anne and her sister Catherine grew up in Derby, hunting, fishing and otherwise enjoying the outdoors with their father. She graduated from Appalachia High School, where she starred in basketball, before going on to graduate with a bachelor’s degree in general science and education from Virginia Polytechnic Institute in Blacksburg, Virginia.

While attending VPI, she met and married the love of her life, Samuel Tarpley Adams, Jr. of Danville, Virginia in 1951. Anne and Sam were married for 62 years until Sam’s passing in 2013. Anne and Sam built their lives and family while residing in England, Texas, New York City, North Carolina, and Virginia before retiring to Dry Fork in 1981. During retirement, they enjoyed traveling the world, visiting all the inhabitable continents. Anne was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Sam , her sister Catherine Horton and her daughter-in-law Carol Adams.

Anne was a woman ahead of her time, who raised her children while having successful careers as a teacher, pilot and flight instructor. She was a Bridge Grand Life Master and a member of the Danville Duplicate Bridge Club where she played every Wednesday and Friday with her closest friends up until a week prior to her passing.

Anne was intelligent, quietly savvy and a force to be reckoned with in business. She carved a path for women of future generations while honoring her life as a wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Anne was known as ‘Nana’ and was fiercely loved by her family. She was famous for her chocolate chip cookies which were part of each family birthday and holidays. Anne leaves a large void in her family who she loved and who loved her. She was the Matriarch of the Adams’ family and will be missed by all who knew her.

Anne is survived by her two sons, Samuel Tarpley Adams III of Roswell, Georgia and Robert Horton Adams of Dry Fork, Virginia. She is also survived by her seven grandchildren Joshua Adams (wife Hollie), Tinsley Brazauskas (husband Jonathan), Samuel Adams, Alex Adams, William Adams (fiancé Desirée), Ren Adams, and Jewellen Adams, and her two great-grandchildren Samantha Adams and Stokely Adams.

Anne’s life will be honored on Saturday, February 11 at Townes Funeral Home located at 215 W. Main Street, Danville, VA. Visitation with the family will be 1:00pm to 2:30 pm followed by a brief service in the Townes Chapel. The family will then gather for a private graveside remembrance.

In lieu of flowers, please consider a donation to the Ninety-Nines, an organization dedicated to women pilots at https://www.ninety-nines.org/donation.htm

Please sign the online guestbook on the Memory Wall at www.townesfuneralhome.com The Adams family has entrusted arrangements to Townes Funeral Home and Crematory, 215 West Main St., Danville, VA, 434-793-1211.