Fred Adams
12/23/2008
UPSILON - Brown - 1960
HARWICH — Fred Adams of Harwich passed away peacefully on Dec. 23, 2008, after a sudden illness.
Fred's love of his family and friends stretched from Cape Cod all across New England and beyond. Fred was born in Utica, N.Y., on Sept. 17, 1938, and raised in Meriden, N.H., where he graduated from Kimball Union Academy in 1956. Fred was a star hockey player at KUA and went on to Brown University, where he continued to play his favorite sport, ice hockey. At Brown, he was a proud and active member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity and ROTC.
After graduating from Brown in 1960, Fred then joined the Navy, where he served as an officer. Fred met and married Sandra Elizabeth Johns in 1963. They settled in Andover, where they raised their two children, William and Kimberly.
Eventually, Fred moved to Boston, where he met Judy Corbett. They were married in 1992. Fred and Judy lived in Boston's Back Bay where they were always busy hosting family and friends to celebrate events in Boston's Back Bay. Friends fondly remember their annual Boston Pops celebrations, their Marathon Monday parties and picnics to the Esplanade to watch the 4th July fireworks.
They moved full time to Harwich in 2005 to enjoy life on Cape Cod. Fred continued his financial planning business in Dennis. They immediately became active in their community; he served as vice president and director of the Great Sand Lakes Association and was a member of the Harwich and Dennis Chambers of Commerce.
Fred could be found often playing golf at Cranberry Valley with his ever growing circle of friends.
Fred was very close to his children and incredibly proud of his grandchildren. In addition to his wife, Judy, Fred leaves his loving children, William Adams of Wellesley, and Kimberly Adams Johnson of New York City; and beloved grandchildren, Nicholas, 19, Taylor, 7, Abigail, 6, and Zachary, 5. He is predeceased by his sister, Polly Adams Leis, and leaves many in-laws, nieces and nephews of the Adams, Strausbaugh and Corbett clans.
There will be a memorial service on Friday, Jan. 23, 2008, at 11 a.m., at the Pilgrim Congregational Church, Route 28, Harwich Port. Burial is private.
In lieu of flowers, please make a donation in Fred's name either to Kimball Union Academy, Alumni Office, P.O. Box 188 Meriden, NH 03770; Brown University Sports Foundation - Men's Ice Hockey, Providence, RI 02912, or the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation at www.pulmonaryfibrosis.org.
Coutinho-Boisse Funeral Home of Historic Harwich Center is respectfully handling all arrangements. For more information, directions, and to sign Fred's personal guest book, please log onto www.cbfuneralhome.com.