John David Adams

John Adams                                                    Toccoa, Georgia

Mr. John David Adams, age 88 of Skyline Drive, Toccoa passed away Monday, March 24, 2025 at the Stephens County Hospital.

A son of the late William Ray Adams and Elizabeth Kesler Adams, he was born June 10, 1936 in Stephens County, Georgia where he had lived all his life.  He was retired from United Insurance Company of America as a Life Insurance Agent with 44 years of service.  He was a member of Hill Street Baptist Church. He was a volunteer with the local Civil Defense and Stephens County Rescue Squad.  He loved being outdoors working in his yard.  He was a beloved husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great grandfather and especially loved being a grandfather, great-grandfather and great-great grandfather.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his son, Jonathan Brian Adams and by a brother, James M. Adams.

Survivors include his wife of the home, Doris Dodd Adams; daughter and son-in-law, Sherrie and Gerald Whiten of Toccoa; grandchildren, Meghan and Derrick King, Hunter Adams, Houston and Morgan Adams, Patti and Barry Adkins and Brent Whiten; great-grandchildren, Blakely King, Delilah King, Bre and Chris Collier, Maddi Adkins, Jackson Whiten, Ava Whiten and Jake Whiten; great-great granddaughter, Alora Collier; brother and sister-in-law, Billy and Peggy Adams of Hot Spring, Arkansas; brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law, Bobby and Martha Dodd of Lavonia,  Larry and Jenora Dodd and Marion and Suzanne Dodd both of Toccoa; a number of nieces and nephews.

Funeral services will be Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 2 p.m. in the Hillcrest Chapel of the Acree-Davis Funeral Home with The Reverend Jerrell Beatty and The Reverend Paul Garrison officiating.  The following gentlemen will serve as pallbearers, Derrick King, Blakely King, Paul Dodd, Houston Adams, Hunter Adams and Bo Blasingame. 

The family will receive friends at the Acree-Davis Funeral Home on Wednesday from noon until the service time at 2 p.m.  Online condolences may be left for the family at www.acree-davisfh.com.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made the Alzheimer’s Association, Georgia Chapter, 41 Perimeter Center East, Suite 550, Atlanta, Georgia 30346, www.donorservices.alz.org, American Heart Association  10 Glenlake Parkway NE #400, Atlanta, Georgia 30328, www.pages.heart.org, or Diabetes Association of Atlanta, 75 Marietta Street, NE, Suite 304, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, www.diabetesatlanta.org

Interment will follow in the Roselane Cemetery with the Acree-Davis Funeral Home and Crematory in charge of the arrangements for Mr. John David Adams.