Healdsburg resident Gail Adams passed away on Christmas Eve at the age of 83, after battling a disease called Lewy Body Dementia with “grace and resilience” for the past eight years. She was born and raised in Ellensburg, Wash., and got her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Puget Sound. She later moved down to the Bay Area — where she earned her Master’s from the University of San Francisco, then served as an educator within San Francisco’s school district for 33 years.
“Gail loved having the summers off and many weeks she spent in Healdsburg, where she decided that she wanted to live in retirement,” writes her husband of more than three decades, Dan Hiles. “She started going to Healdsburg in her connection with the Dry Creek Vineyard where she was one of the founding members in the early 1970s. She loved her association there and that is where she and I had our wedding party in 1992.” Gail leaves behind two children, one stepchild and a step-grandchild, along with her second husband Dan. He leaves us with this poem:
I lost Dear Gail on Christmas Eve,
Holidays spent just to grieve.
Now the New Year has just begun,
Forever keeping Gail as my number one.
Though seasons change & time may pass,
Gail’s love remains at the top of her class.
— Her loving husband, Dan
