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Feb. 14, 1923 – Jan. 18, 2015

NATCHEZ — Services for George Perry Adams, 91, of Natchez, who died Sunday, Jan. 18, 2015, will be at 11 a.m. today at Laird Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Paul Southerland officiating.

Burial will follow at the Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery under the direction of Laird Funeral Home.

Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until service time today at the funeral home.

Mr. Adams was born Feb. 14, 1923, in Natchez, the son of Harry and Annie Rowland Adams.

As a teenager, George enjoyed photography, woodworking and electronics.

He was an avid amateur radio operator “Ham” for 73 years. His “Ham” friends knew him by his call letters, W5KHB.

Mr. Adams served his country in the U.S. Navy during World War II in the Pacific. After the war, he worked at Sears where he met his wife, Annie “Tommie” Leake. They had been married for 68 years.

Mr. Adams also worked with Schlumberger Well Service for 12 years and then started his own business in two-way radio communications, which had served the Miss-Lou for 53 years. George enjoyed gardening, his “Ham” radio and teaching his children and friends to water ski. He was a member of the Natchez High School “Fighting Five” committee.

George and Tommie were blessed with four children, Carolyn Adams Switzer and husband, Ken, Charles Adams and wife, Melissa, Clara Adams Spell and husband, Lester, and Ann Adams Milner and husband, John; 11 grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.

The family thanks all the staff at Promise Hospital for their willingness to provide excellent care to their patients and especially to George.

Pallbearers will be Allen Whittington, Scotty McLain, Davis Eames, Benji Campbell, Allen Campbell and Matt Temple.

Honorary pallbearers will be Dr. Lester Spell Jr., Ken Switzer, John Milner and all of his “Ham” radio friends.

Memorials may be made to the Natchez Children’s Home Services, 806 N. Union St., Natchez, MS 39120.

If George could have said his last words on his “Ham” radio, it would have been, “73s from W5KHB. See you in heaven.”

Online condolences may be sent to lairdfh.com.