Sudie Adams

Sudie Muirhead Adams, Emeritus Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at Baylor University, died Monday, November 15, 2010.
Services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, November 19, 2010 at Lake Shore Baptist Church on Friday with Rev. Libby Bellinger and Rev. Dorisann Cooper officiating. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery. Visitation will be 5:00 p.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday at OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Blvd.

Sudie was born in Calvert, Texas January 19, 1915 to Dr. H.H. Muirhead and Sarah Alyne Guynes Muirhead, Baptist missionaries in Brazil. She was educated in Recife, Pernambuco and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She received her B.A. and M.A. degrees from Baylor and did additional graduate studies at the University of Texas in Latin, Romance linguistics, Spanish, and Latin American literature. She taught physical education in Plainview and Midland, Texas, and she taught Romance languages at Union University in Jackson, Tennessee, The University of Texas in Austin, and at Baylor University.

Sudie's immediate family earned a total of fifteen academic degrees, fourteen of which were from Baylor. She was a member of Epsilon Chi of Delta Kappa Gamma, the American Association of Teachers of Spanish and Portuguese, the Southwest Council of Latin American Studies, the Old Main Society, and Baylor Round Table.

She was married to Warren H. Adams of Waco for 31 years. Sudie and Warren taught together at Baylor most of their married life. Their life was filled with travel, devotion to their students, and love for friends and family. Sudie had a kind and generous spirit and will be dearly missed by all who knew her.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren H. Adams; her parents, Dr. and Mrs. H.H. Muirhead; her brothers, Dr. J.J. Muirhead, Dr. S.J. Muirhead, Dr. E.E. Muirhead, and Harry Muirhead; and sisters, Bess M. Estes and Elena M. Ware.

She is survived by her sister, Dulce M. Brooks; and many nephews and nieces who affectionately referred to her as Gran-Sudie.

The family thanks Phoenix Care and Hillcrest Scott & White Hospice for their professional and tender care. Memorials can be sent to Sudie M. Adams and Warren H. Adams Endowment Fund for the Department of Modern Foreign Languages at Baylor or to Lake Shore Baptist Church.