Sudie
Muirhead 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. Dorisanne
Cooper officiating. 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.
