6/15/1943 - 1/8/2008
Tarlton (Nancy Jean) Jones Adams My Husband Gus and I have been living in Thomasville, GA for three years. We moved from Jacksonville, Florida where Gus’ company, Pine Street Partners has an office as well as Atlanta. Thomasville is a good spot to travel to both from and he continues to head up his real estate advisory and transaction business. We have been married 15 years and have four grandchildren, three in Fairhope, Alabama and one in Jacksonville. Following college (University of Miami) I became a stewardess for National Airlines. In 1969, I created the first corporate art program in Florida for Southeast Banking Corporation; moved to Los Angeles to advise major corporations on their art collections; moved to Washington, D.C. with one of Ronald Reagan’s transition teams and eventually, joined a Public Relations firm as their Director of Marketing; was recruited to come back to Miami in 1989 as Vice President of Dade County’s Economical Development firm, the Beacon Council. Merritt Stierheim then recruited me to be the Vice President of Marketing for the Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau which I held for five years. Gus and I moved to Jupiter, Florida and I joined AT&T as their Director of Corporation Communications for the southeast region and Puerto Rico. We then moved to Jacksonville and I became their lobbyist for wireless communications. Following a downsize, I opened up my own firm and lobbied High-Speed rail service in Florida with Amendment 1. A Paris based firm, Vivendi hired me as their national communications director and I worked out of Sarasota, Florida for three and a half years, commuting to Jacksonville on weekends. I left this company when we moved to Thomasville and became the Director of the Plantation Wildlife Arts Festival in Thomasville. Gus is an avid quail hunter and we still stay in touch with many of his classmates from the 1958 graduating class.