Ronald Adams
ANDOVER – Ronald Adams, 85, of Andover passed away peacefully on Saturday May 22, 2021, at home surrounded by the presence and love of his family.
Ron was born in Quincy, Mass., on June 29, 1935. At 17 he joined the Navy and was a U.S. Navy Seaman First Class, he had to cut his Navy career short to care for his mother and two younger brothers while his older brother went to Korea. He began working for Boston Edison Power Company at 18 as a station cleaner. During his career there he attended school at Peterson School of Steam Engineering, Northeastern University and Wisconsin State University and became a First-Class Engineer. He continued education through Rutgers and Bentley University for management development.
After 42 years he retired as the operations and maintenance specialist for all Boston Edison fossil fueled power plants.
Through the years Ron came to love Maine and made trips yearly to Holton to hunt with his dear friends and brought many coworkers to enjoy what he had discovered in the Maine woods. He also would go to Bethel area where Sunday River Ski Resort would eventually be built. It was during these trips he met his wife Maureen. When he retired, he and his family built his dream home in Andover so he could be where he loved to hunt and fish and to be closer to his wife’s family. During his retirement years he took a job at the Sunday River golf club as their ranger and golf starter and spent several years there enjoying talking to people about Maine, golfing fishing and his time hunting the same woods he was now watching them golf on.
He loved spending time with family and friends and enjoyed spending as much time as he could with his grandson, Noah, fishing every brook and were, they could get to. Hunting with close friends up north at camp, golfing and snow machining and participated in everything he could. Spent many hours with friends dragging the trails in Andover. Making maple syrup and getting fiddle heads with his friend Wayne and cooking suppers at the Webb River sportsman club for Monday night meetings. He also worked on the Andover Olde Home Days committee and made many friends especially Dora who he loved. He led a full and good life. Was a life member of Snow Shoe Club. He also worked on the Andover Olde Home days committee and made many friends especially Dora who he loved. He led a full and good life.
Ron was a life member of the BPOE Elks Club, Snowshoe Club, avid deer hunter and a member of the Webb River sportsman’s club. He attended the Andover First Congregational Church and served as a trustee.
Ron was predeceased by his mother and father, his older brother, Theodore Adams and wife Doddie, his daughter, Tracy Wotton his grandson, Mark Walsh Jr. and nephew, John Adams.
He is survived by his wife, Maureen Adams, two brothers, John “Jack” Adams and wife Roberta of South Carolina and Steven Adams and wife Jean of Ohio; daughter, Holly Lyn Warshaw of Wareham, Mass., his son, Leonard Adams and wife Tania of Dixfield; his grandchildren, Nichole Goding, Jessie Berube, Brittany Moore and Nina Moore and Noah Adams, four great-grandchildren, Payton Austin, Dana Goding, Paislee Hodgkins and Able Hodgkins and many nieces and nephews.
Friends and family are invited to sign the online guest book and share memories with the family at http://www.meaderandson.com.
Funeral services will be held 11 a.m.,Thursday, May 27, 2021, at the Andover Congregational Church. Interment will be in the Pineview Cemetery in Roxbury. Friends and family are invited to call at the Meader & Son Funeral home 3 Franklin St Rumford, ME on Wednesday from 6-8 p.m.
Those who desire may contribute to First Congregational Church of Andover or to the
Webb River
Sportsman Club
PO Box 551
Dixfield, ME 04224
in his memory.